Angles
Students learn about camera angles and trial them using phone cameras and other media equipment.
Teaching Activities
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.
Dynamics
Students learn about dynamics and apply these to a learnt phrase.
Effort Actions
Students engage in two structured improvisations and create a short phrase based on effort actions.
Fitter, Faster, Stronger
Students perform activities from the Ausdance Fitness Test then devise their own speed test.
Force and Flow
Students play two games that explore differences in effort levels when applying force and flow in dance.
Haka
Students create their own Haka.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
Students create a feel good dance. Reflect on their feelings before and after.
Improvisation
Students attempt to expand their solo ideas through improvisation techniques.
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.
Kat’s Choreography
As a whole the class learns a sequence from Kat’s routine. They then create variations of this dance sequence.
Lighting
Students develop a lighting plan and then attempt to realise it via low tech lighting found in and around the school.
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.
Origins of Contemporary Dance
Students research an Australian modern dance pioneer and construct a timeline of key works.
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.
Salsa – Experimenting with Form
Students improvise with the basic salsa steps.
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.
Sporty Dance
Students select movement from three different sports and create a dance.
Styles of Dance
Students warm up and learn a dance from the Dance Academy website tutorials.
The Hip Hop Story
Students learn about the history of hip hop and based on freezes and poses create a simple hip hop phrase.
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.