Accent
Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.
Teaching Activities
Angles
Students learn about camera angles and trial them using phone cameras and other media equipment.
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.
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 Video
Students discuss framing and editing, plan camera angles for a dance shoot
Duets
Students prepare a one-minute routine with props.
Family Stories
Students recount family stories by creating tableaus.
Family Traditions
Students consider family traditions and create a movement phrase based on action words.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lighting
Students develop a lighting plan and then attempt to realise it via low tech lighting found in and around the school.
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.
Planning a Community Dance Program
Students plan a community dance program.
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.
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.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
The Company Structure
Students learn about the traditions of ballet companies and their hierarchy, and map this structure.
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 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.
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.
Trust
Students experience a range of trust activities and rate their levels of trust.
Turning with a Partner
Students try a few rock’n’roll moves and create a photo wall of fame.
Types of Feedback
Through role play students learn the effectiveness of four forms of feedback.
Unity
Students experience a range of activities and create a dance to be performed in unison. Feedback by peer review.