Year 12 Dance

The course runs for the full year and is taught five periods per week.

This is a largely practical course with the focus on developing choreography and performance skills. Choreographic processes will be explored as will the movement vocabulary and conventions associated with specified dance genre.

Attendance at one or more live professional dance performances will form the basis for analysis of dance works and will be examined in the external exam.

There will be opportunity for students to gain extra course credits through involvement as dancers and or choreographers in the Lynfield cultural festival (Term 1) and annual school production (Term 2).
   

Achievement Standard Number	Internal /  External	Title and learning contexts.	Credit value
Achievement Standard 91205	Internal	Choreograph a group dance to communicate an intention This involves: defining a clear intention using the dance elements ordering movements for a group of dancers using spatial relationships among dancers relating choreographic decisions to the choreographic intention of the dance.	4
Achievement Standard 91206	Internal	Choreograph a solo dance to communicate an intention This involves: defining a clear intention using the dance elements ordering movements for a solo dancer relating choreographic decisions to the choreographic intention of the dance	4
Achievement Standard 91209	Internal	Perform a repertoire of dance This involves: reproducing the movements required by each dance in a series of dances differentiating the timing and focus required for each dance conveying aspects of the idea behind each dance.	6
Achievement Standard 91211	External	Provide an interpretation of a dance with supporting evidence This involves: describing key aspects of a dance performance such as individual movements, sequences, use of space, use of energy, use of choreographic  structures, the use of repetition and variation, the use of formations and groupings, set, costumes, music and lighting demonstrating understanding of ways in which meaning is conveyed such as through the costume designs, movements choices, groupings, characterisation responding to aspects of a dance performance such as conveying the reasons for enjoying or not enjoying the dance, enjoying or not enjoying the performance of specific dancers, enjoying or not enjoying the genre.   This course provides L2 Literacy credits.	4
Achievement Standard 91207	Internal	Perform an ethnic or social dance to communicate understanding of the style  (optional) This involves: recalling and reproducing the dance in accordance with the demonstration or description used as a basis for the dance style	4
Achievement Standard 91208	Internal	Perform a theatre dance to communicate understanding of the style (optional) This involves: recalling and reproducing the dance in accordance with the demonstration or description used as a basis for the dance style conveying aspects of the idea being expressed in the dance.	4