A Healthy Menu
Students discuss the dietary requirements of an adolescent. Play food group bingo.
Teaching Activities
Accent
Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.
Angles
Students learn about camera angles and trial them using phone cameras and other media equipment.
Avoiding Injury
Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.
Bare Feet
Students discuss the kinds of occupations that focus on feet. They create a script, written/spoken from the foot’s point of view as it spends a day dancing in pointe shoes.
Basic Salsa
Students observe, experience and notate basic salsa moves.
Body Language
Students recreate the staged fight between Abigail and Sammy with particular attention to body language.
Choreographing a Fight
Students choreograph a fight scene.
Communication
In pairs, students create a phrase of music without the use of speech.
Competing for a Place
Students discuss intimidating behaviours, practice positive self talk.
Contradictions
Students examine the ways in which behaviours sometimes contradict values.
Cultural Dances
Students discuss cultural dance styles and individual heritages. Plan and teach a cultural dance.
Cygnet Dance
Students create a cygnet dance in the style of line dancing. Rate selves using activity sheet.
Dance Access
Students learn about dance for people of all abilities, watch some clips of companies that specialise in this field and discuss movements seen.
Dance Video
Students discuss framing and editing, plan camera angles for a dance shoot
Dance without Music
Students develop a dance duet without music by utilising sounds in their immediate environment.
Duets
Students prepare a one-minute routine with props.
Dynamics
Students learn about dynamics and apply these to a learnt phrase.
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.
Effort Actions
Students engage in two structured improvisations and create a short phrase based on effort actions.
Family Traditions
Students consider family traditions and create a movement phrase based on action words.
Fear of Falling
Guided improvisation on small shifts of the body that constitute “falling”.
First Aid
Students consider causes for physical collapse, discuss emergency responses.
Fitter, Faster, Stronger
Students perform activities from the Ausdance Fitness Test then devise their own speed test.
Floor Dance
Students create a floor phrase where they do not use their hands or stand on their feet.
Force and Flow
Students play two games that explore differences in effort levels when applying force and flow in dance.
Free Form
Students participate in a number of small activities leading to hip hop free form (improvisation).
Graffiti Dance
Students find examples of graffiti and create a phrase based on graffiti images.
Haka
Students create their own Haka.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
Students create a feel good dance. Reflect on their feelings before and after.
Hip Hop Fashion
Students create a hip hop fashion show.
Hydration
Students learn about our bodies need for water and calculate the amount of water needed by people according to weight.
Improvisation
Students attempt to expand their solo ideas through improvisation techniques.
In-situ Dance
Students watch examples of site specific work and generate movement response to alternative locations.
Injuries
Students learn about soft tissue injuries and fractures, create an injury report.
Jump for Your Life
Students create a jumping phrase and consider musical implications for different jump speeds.
Jump Safety
Students learn about safe dance practice in relation to jumps.
Jump Thrill
Students explore a range of jumps and observe some jump styles from the internet.
Learning a Skill
Students consider the communication skills necessary to teach specific skills.
Making New Work
Students learn a range of contemporary dance movements and phrases.
Males who Dance
Students define the physical advantages for men in dance.
Music for Dance
Students learn some movements from the clip, arrange these in an order that they prefer and perform the dance to a range of musical scores.
One Minute Solo
Students collaborate in pairs as choreographer and dancer to develop a dance solo.
Origins of Contemporary Dance
Students research an Australian modern dance pioneer and construct a timeline of key works.
Physical Skill
Students demonstrate existing skill in small groups and collectively construct a group phrase.
Pointe Shoes
Students describe footwear for dance, history of the point shoe and experience a range of feet and calf strengthening exercises, keeping a record.
Pre-performance Nerves
Students identify the symptoms for this kind of stress; learn what causes it and how to manage anxiety related to performing.
Rehabilitation
Students carry out the Ausdance Fitness Test focusing on strengths and weaknesses then devleop their own fitness plan.
Roles in a Film Studio
Students look at roles on set and create a “postcard” of a set and bring it to life for 15 seconds.
Safe Dance Spaces
Students learn what constitutes a safe dance space and carry out a check.
Safe Stretching
Students learn how, when and why to stretch and create a poster demonstrating understanding of the theory.
Salsa – Experimenting with Form
Students improvise with the basic salsa steps.
Salsa – Take the Lead
Students learn one salsa dance and then swap leading roles.
Space – Body Shape
Body shape is explored through improvisation of shapes – call and response method with reflective activity.
Space – Spatial Organisation
Students choreograph pathways in space using their initials as impetus.
Spatial Design
Students learn about symmetry and asymmetry in pairs and as a group. They apply spatial arrangements of groups to an existing dance.
Sporty Dance
Students select movement from three different sports and create a dance.
Storyboarding
Students create a dance, photograph or draw it and arrange as a storyboard. Extension activity rearranging the elements.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
Styles of Dance
Students warm up and learn a dance from the Dance Academy website tutorials.
Sugar for the Brain
Students learn about the brain’s need for glucose and conduct a sugar taste test.
The Foot as a Tool
Students learn about range of motion in the foot and ankle and explore personal range of motion.
The Hip Hop Story
Students learn about the history of hip hop and based on freezes and poses create a simple hip hop phrase.
The Pulse
Students learn to hear and perform to the beat.
Tied Together
Practical activity where pairs of students perform activities as one person, taking into account the other’s point of view.
Time Calls
Students consider pre-performance processes and relate to time calls.
Turning Basics
Students learn some of the basic skills needed for successful turns.
Turning Snapshots
Students review a variety of turns and construct a visual collage of turns.
Turning with a Partner
Students try a few rock’n’roll moves and create a photo wall of fame.
Unity
Students experience a range of activities and create a dance to be performed in unison. Feedback by peer review.