Year 7 SyllabusTest
The Arts Scope and SequenceYear 7 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study at least two of the five Arts subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8. It is a requirement that students study a performance subject and a visual subject.
Year Level Description
In Year 7, Dance students build on their understanding of improvising and experimenting with the elements of dance (BEST) and choreographic devices to create dance that communicates an idea. They continue to improve their dance skills, focusing on developing technical competence in relation to body control, accuracy, posture/alignment , strength, flexibility, balance and coordination. They are provided with opportunities to present dance to an audience, developing their performance skills of expression, projection and focus. As they make dance and respond to it, they reflect on the meaning, interpretations and purposes of dance.
Safe dance practices underlie all experiences, as students perform within their own body capabilities and work safely in groups.
A suggested learning focus should enable teaching the content through student interest in dance. Suggested genres or styles that may be taught, but are not limited to, include contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip hop, street dance, tap and cultural dance, for example Spanish, Indian, Bollywood.
The learning focus that teachers select should shape and drive the teaching of the content.
Making
Choreographic processes
Improvisation skills to explore new movement ideas (ACADAM013)
Different elements of dance: body, energy, space, time (BEST), explored and combined to develop choreographic intent (ACADAM014)
Choreographic devices ( unison, canon, repetition) and choreographic structure ( narrative ) to create dance that communicates meaning (ACADAM016)
Group work practices (sharing ideas, problem-solving, giving feedback, listening skills) in dance (ACADAM017)
Skills and techniques
Safe dance practice of style-specific techniques (ACADAM015)
Responding
Dance reflecting and analysing
Reflective processes, using dance terminology, on their own and others’ work, and the use in dance works of the elements of dance and design concepts (lighting, music/sound, multimedia, costume, props, sets, staging) (ACADAR018)
Dance in context
Distinguishing features and purposes of dance (ACADAR019)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students use improvisation skills to explore some new movement ideas and to rearrange known movement. They combine the elements of dance (BEST), use specified choreographic devices and structure, with some purpose, to choreograph dance that communicates an idea. Students execute technical dance skills safely in a particular genre/style, demonstrating some body control and coordination of movement. They perform dance to an audience demonstrating, on occasion, projection, focus, retention and clarity of movement and appropriate expression.
Students use some specific dance terminology and reflective processes to outline how BEST and design concepts are used to create meaning in their own and others’ dance. They identify and outline distinctive features and purposes of dance.
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study at least two of the five Arts subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8. It is a requirement that students study a performance subject and a visual subject.
Year Level Description
In Year 7, Dance students build on their understanding of improvising and experimenting with the elements of dance (BEST) and choreographic devices to create dance that communicates an idea. They continue to improve their dance skills, focusing on developing technical competence in relation to body control, accuracy, posture/alignment , strength, flexibility, balance and coordination. They are provided with opportunities to present dance to an audience, developing their performance skills of expression, projection and focus. As they make dance and respond to it, they reflect on the meaning, interpretations and purposes of dance.
Safe dance practices underlie all experiences, as students perform within their own body capabilities and work safely in groups.
A suggested learning focus should enable teaching the content through student interest in dance. Suggested genres or styles that may be taught, but are not limited to, include contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip hop, street dance, tap and cultural dance, for example Spanish, Indian, Bollywood.
The learning focus that teachers select should shape and drive the teaching of the content.