Title: Year 11 Dance  
Coordinator: Ms Sue Lonsdale

Dance is a human activity of ancient tradition.  It is a way of ordering movement into an expressive code.  Dance at Aspley State High School enables the students’ creative impulse to be released through the opportunity to shape and control dance.

Senior Dance is an Authority subject and at Aspley State High School the Dance curriculum:

• Provides opportunities for all students to achieve their unique potential through the Arts
• Facilitates the development and expression of the individual physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally
• Enables students to value the human body as an instrument of communication through awareness and control of physical movement
• Develops critically informed and aesthetically appreciative audiences of dance in all its contexts
• Students need not have studied Dance in Junior to enter this course

Topics

• Term 1 Building Blocks - 35hrs (10 weeks)
• Term 2 Who Can Dance? - 28hrs (8 weeks)
• Term 3 How Can You Dance? - 21hrs (6 weeks)
• Term 4 When Did They Dance? - 49hrs (14 weeks)

The units of work studied in Dance include:

• Various genres of dance - Musical Theatre, Ballet, Popular Dance, Ballroom, Contemporary,
• Ethnic - Performance of repertoire
• Choreographic tasks
• Analysis of dance works, both live and on film
• Workshops with artists and company dancers
• Major independent study in Year 12

More Information

For more information on Senior Dance, click here.  

Assessment

The following assessment instruments are used to assess students in Dance:

Unit 1 – The building Blocks

• Choreographic Task: Mid Term 1
• Appreciation Task: End Term 1

Unit 2 – Who Can Dance?

• Choreographic Task: End Term 2

Unit 3 – How Can You Dance?

• Performance Task: Mid Term 3

Unit 4 – When Did They Dance?

• Performance Task: Start Term 4
• Appreciation Task: Mid Term 4

Students who undertake Senior Dance will be required to attend rehearsals outside of class time.  Evening excursions will also be an important component of this course and a small cost will apply to attend these excursions.

Assessment Tasks

• Appraising Task Download

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.  

Resources

• 1 x Manilla folder, 1 x A4 Visual Diary, black dance pants for classwork and assessment

Related Links

• RI Arts Learning Network
• Aboriginal Art - Dance
• Rhythm Connections - African Drum Dance Camp
• Ballroom Dancing Australia
• Bangarra Dance Theatre
• Australian Dancing
• Australian Dance Company