Avoiding Injury
Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.
Teaching Activities
Competing for a Place
Students discuss intimidating behaviours, practice positive self talk.
Dance Style and Terminology
Students discuss dance styles, create a mind map, select a style and create a glossary of terms.
Eating Disorders
Students discuss the signs of an eating disorder and either write a letter to a friend with body image issues or hold a debate.
Making Choices
Students create pros and cons list for a particular course of action. Write letter explaining choice, using argumentative format.
Telling the Story
English skills practices in creating 1-line, 1-paragraph and 1-page synopses.
The Audition Form
Students discuss purpose and uses of an audition form. Design an application form.
The Audition Process
Students create a list of full time dance schools, discuss audition processes, contexts and variations re genre. Design an audition.
The Plot
Students recount the story of Swan Lake in present tense in the style of a news broadcast. Extension activity to film the broadcast.