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A Healthy Menu

Students discuss the dietary requirements of an adolescent. Play food group bingo.

A Shoe Advertisement

Students discuss De Bono’s Six Action Shoes and use this information to support the development of a shoe advertisement.

A Weekly Budget

Students discuss needs and wants and write a family budget.

Accent

Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.

Agility, Flexibility and Balance

Students play two games that test agility, flexibility and balance.

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.

Background to the Fouette

In one of four groups: historians, researchers, illustrators and tutors, students research and teach a fouette.

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.

Behind the Scenes

Students discuss behind the scenes roles and duties. Play hot spot role play.

Benefits of Dance

Students construct a poster advertising the benefits of dance to a target group.

Body Language

Students recreate the staged fight between Abigail and Sammy with particular attention to body language.

Characters in Dance

Students explore characterization and learn to generate motifs.

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.

Contemporary Dance Companies

Students play Aussie dance map.

Contradictions

Students examine the ways in which behaviours sometimes contradict values.

Costume

Students create costume designs for their cygnet dance.

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 Boot Camp

Students design and promote a free dance bootcamp.

Dance Careers

Students select and research a dance related career and present this research project as a multimedia presentation.

Dance Style and Terminology

Students discuss dance styles, create a mind map, select a style and create a glossary of terms.

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.

Dealing with Stress

Students discuss a stressful situation, create a slogan, vote for slogan, create a campaign, pitch the campaign to a panel of experts.

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.

Evaluating a Community Dance Program

Students decide on the ways in which their program will be evaluation. Design interview questions.

Fad Diets

Students discuss fad diets and develop a fad diet report.

Family Stories

Students recount family stories by creating tableaus.

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”.

Feedback

Students discuss the giving and receiving of notes for improvement of group and individual performances, learn a dance and practice giving each other notes.

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).

Fundraising

Students plans a number of fundraising activities to pay for a performance.

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.

Kat’s Choreography

As a whole the class learns a sequence from Kat’s routine. They then create variations of this dance sequence.

Leading Men

Students research leading men, place on timeline, select one and research him.

Learning a Skill

Students consider the communication skills necessary to teach specific skills.

Lighting

Students develop a lighting plan and then attempt to realise it via low tech lighting found in and around the school.

Makeup

Students view a number of images of dancers wearing stage makeup. They select or create a character and design makeup for a performance in a large auditorium.

Making Choices

Students create pros and cons list for a particular course of action. Write letter explaining choice, using argumentative format.

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.

Nutcracker Costume

Students select a character from the Nutcracker and design a costume with consideration to the particular movement performed by the dancer in the role.

On Tour

Students role play interviewer and artist on tour. Students create a poster advertising an upcoming tour.

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.

Parents – Them and Us

Students consider leisure activities – shared and different using a Venn diagram.

Perfect Minutes

Students discuss a song that resonates with them; try to find a song that resonates for the class.

Perfectionism

Students discuss perfectionist traits, self talk for perfectionists and positive self talk alternatives.

Performance Costs

Students plan for a performance and create a budget for it.

Physical Skill

Students demonstrate existing skill in small groups and collectively construct a group phrase.

Planning a Community Dance Program

Students plan a community dance program.

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.

Results

Students discuss one character’s results failure and write an internal dialogue for her.

Rivalry

Exploring what friendly rivalry means, students perform and dance battle in a hip hop style.

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.

Scene 17

Students create a script for one scene.

Scheherazade

Students learn about the influence of the Ballet Russes, hear the story of Scheherazade and design a costume for one of the characters.

Shakespeare in Dance

Students research a choreographed work inspired by a Shakespeare play.

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.

Superstitions

Students discuss superstitions for good and back luck and create a phrase from the verbs, nouns and adjectives found in a collection of superstitions.

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 Company Structure

Students learn about the traditions of ballet companies and their hierarchy, and map this structure.

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 Nutcracker Ballet

Students watch the ballet and write a synopsis of the story.

The Perfect Couple

Students discuss the ideals of the perfect couple, the pressures this puts on young people, consider their own ideals and write an ad for a dating agency.