The New Zealand Curriculum Arts - Dance and Drama Achievement Objectives
| Strand | Learning Area | Understanding the Arts in Context (UC) | Developing Practical Knowledge (PK) | Developing Ideas (DI) |
Communicating and Interpreting (CI) |
| Achievement Objective Level 4 Year 9 |
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Investigate the functions, purposes and technologies of drama in cultural and historical contexts. |
Select and use techniques and relevant technologies to develop drama practice. Use conventions to structure drama. |
Initiate and refine ideas with others to plan and develop drama. |
Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements techniques, conventions, and technologies create meaning in their own and others’ work. |
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Explore and describe how dance is used for different purposes in a variety of cultures and contexts. |
Apply the dance elements to extend personal movement skills and vocabularies and to explore the vocabularies of others. |
Combine and contrast the dance elements to express images, ideas, and feelings in dance, using a variety of choreographic processes. |
Prepare and present dance, with an awareness of the performance context. Describe and record how the purpose of selected dances is expressed through the movement. |
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The New Zealand Curriculum Identifies Five Key Competencies (Capabilities for living and lifelong learning)
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| Thinking. | Using language, symbols and texts. | Managing self. | Relating to others. | Participating and contributing. |
| Students will be creative, inventive and solve problems related to performance briefs. Imagination and memory will be developed. |
Students will use spoken language, body language plus write and interpret texts. |
Students will be responsible for completion of homework tasks and group presentations. |
Students will relate to members of their group and will present ideas related to groups and situations in their performance work. |
Students will participate as part of a group and contribute ideas when devising dance and drama works. |
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Learning in Dance and Drama offers excellent opportunities to develop skills across all five key competencies.
The Year 9 Dance and Drama course gives students an introduction to skills developed in both dance and drama performing arts. The course runs for two terms three periods per week.
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First Term - Dance |
Second Term - Drama |
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Improvisation /Introduction to acting technique Students learn improvisation skills that use drama techniques of voice, body, movement and space to create drama and dance performance. Some contact improvisation is explored in relation to dance. |
Theatre Form/History Students research a variety of clown styles. They present their findings to the class in a power point format. |
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Dance Performance Introduction to dance performance. Students learn and perform a folk-fusion dance based on a music composition entitled Funky Celtic Turkish Dude. The focus is on unison and timing. |
Drama Devising and Performance Students will develop original clown characters. They will explore action, relationship and situation through group-devised clown character performances. |
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Choreography Introduction to choreography. Students work collaboratively in groups to choreograph a group dance based on a given brief. They may include movement from a range of dance styles. |
Theatresports This is a short end of course unit that explores a range of exercises designed to develop specific performance techniques related to both drama and dance.
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