Accent

Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.

Avoiding Injury

Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.

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.

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 without Music

Students develop a dance duet without music by utilising sounds in their immediate environment.

Duets

Students prepare a one-minute routine with props.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Physical Skill

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

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.

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 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.

Scheherazade

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

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.

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 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.

Trust

Students experience a range of trust activities and rate their levels of trust.

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.