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• Dance: Level D achievement standards

  By the end of Level D, students make and share a simple dance sequence and demonstrate safe dance practice.

  Students provide a simple explanation about the features and purpose of their own dance.

  Level description | The Arts | Dance | Level D

• Dance: Level D description

  In Level D, students explore dance. They learn about how dance can represent the world and they make dances to represent their ideas about the world. They share their dance with peers and experience dance as audiences.

  Students become aware of their bodies and learn about the body bases, parts...

  Level description | The Arts | Dance

• VCADAD014

  Improvise and sequence dance movements to communicate moods and feelings

  Elaborations

  • dancers changing tempo and rhythm as the music changes
  • exploring and practising a range of movement types, for example light and heavy movements
  • practising to a range of fundamental movements to music, for example, walking, running, marching, galloping, skipping, crawling (locomotor), bending, stretching, twisting, turning (non-locomotor)
  • practising to begin to develop technical skills of body control, balance and coordination and responding to teacher’s feedback

  VCADAD014 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Dance Practices

• VCADAE013

  Develop safe fundamental movements and technical skills when exploring dance ideas

  Elaborations

  • respond to an stimuli through dance, such as moving to music, shared stories or visual media
  • using and repeating known movement sequence in own improvisations
  • experimenting with the elements of space, time, dynamics and relationships through movement, for example, considering tempo

  VCADAE013 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADAP015

  Perform dance that communicates ideas, feelings, observations and/or experiences to an audience

  Elaborations

  • creating and presenting a dance for a social purpose
  • describing some of the characteristics of their dance, expressing what features they like best in their own dance
  • using expressive skills to engage the audience, for example, looking out to audience and using facial expressions
  • viewing and presenting their dance in a digital format

  VCADAP015 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Present and Perform

• VCADAR016

  Respond to dance and describe some of the characteristics they observe

  Elaborations

  • discussing basic features, such as what is the dance about, its costumes, movements
  • identifying where they have experience dance in their lives, for example, community, social events and what these dances are about
  • identifying in dance the different feelings about the world and other people’s ideas and explore how each dance can be different

  VCADAR016 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Respond and Interpret