A Shoe Advertisement
Students discuss De Bono’s Six Action Shoes and use this information to support the development of a shoe advertisement.
Select from the following Dance Knowledge activities that develop students’ knowledge of genre, culture, history and styles of dance; safe dance practices; dance processes; and dance vocabulary.
Teaching Activities
A Weekly Budget
Students discuss needs and wants and write a family budget.
Angles
Students learn about camera angles and trial them using phone cameras and other media equipment.
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.
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.
Characters in Dance
Students explore characterization and learn to generate motifs.
Contemporary Dance Companies
Students play Aussie dance map.
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.
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
Evaluating a Community Dance Program
Students decide on the ways in which their program will be evaluation. Design interview questions.
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.
Hip Hop Fashion
Students create a hip hop fashion show.
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.
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.
Males who Dance
Students define the physical advantages for men in dance.
On Tour
Students role play interviewer and artist on tour. Students create a poster advertising an upcoming tour.
Origins of Contemporary Dance
Students research an Australian modern dance pioneer and construct a timeline of key works.
Perfect Minutes
Students discuss a song that resonates with them; try to find a song that resonates for the class.
Performance Costs
Students plan for a performance and create a budget for it.
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.
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.
Shakespeare in Dance
Students research a choreographed work inspired by a Shakespeare play.
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 Plot
Students recount the story of Swan Lake in present tense in the style of a news broadcast. Extension activity to film the broadcast.
Theatre Design
Students follow Tara as she moves backstage, map her journey and record/sketch/design the backstage areas.
Time Calls
Students consider pre-performance processes and relate to time calls.