Accent
Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.
Teaching Activities
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
Dance without Music
Students develop a dance duet without music by utilising sounds in their immediate environment.
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 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.
Making New Work
Students learn a range of contemporary dance movements and phrases.
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.
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.
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.
The Pulse
Students learn to hear and perform to the beat.
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.
Unity
Students experience a range of activities and create a dance to be performed in unison. Feedback by peer review.