Title: Year 12 Dance
Pre-requisites: Yr 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 The Ritual of Dance - 21 hrs (6 weeks)
• Term 2 How Can You Dance? - 28 hrs (8 weeks)
• Term 3 What Do They Dance About? - 56 hrs (16 weeks)
• Term 4 What Do You Dance About? - 21 hrs (6 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 Ritual of Dance

• Choreography Task: Mid Term 1

Unit 2 – How Can You Dance?

• Performance Task: Start Term 2
• Appreciation Task: Mid Term 2

Unit 3 – What Do They Dance About?

• Choreography Task: End Term 2
• Performance Task: Mid Term 3
• Appreciation Task: End Term 3

Unit 4 – What Do You Dance About?

• Choreography 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.

Assignment guidelines

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

Assessment Tasks

• Appraising Task Download

Resources

1 x A4 Visual Diary, black dance pants for class work 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