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• The Arts | Drama: Learning in Drama

  Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of drama, develop skills, apply techniques and process and use materials and technologies as they explore a range of forms...

  Overview material | Drama

• VCADRR046

  Analyse a range of drama from contemporary and past times, including the drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to explore differing viewpoints and develop understanding of drama practice across local, national and international contexts

  Elaborations

  • evaluating conventions from past forms and styles to consider how these can be incorporated into own drama and contemporary practice, for example, ‘How successful were the actors and director in conveying the playwright’s stated intent? How successfully have the design elements been incorporated into the drama?
  • identifying and describing the actor-audience relationship in different dramatic contexts, forms and styles
  • linking conventions from different forms with purposes, origins and contexts
  • identifying the impact of media, and social and technological changes on drama practice, for example, interactions between kinaesthetic and visual aspects of dance in forms that incorporate digital components
  • interrogating the cultural and social roles and responsibilities of the theatre industry, recognising the power of drama in advocating for, and being a catalyst of change, for example, investigating how the work by contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and performers for television, film, circus and comedy is impacting on community understanding about issues such as land rights and reconciliation

  VCADRR046 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Respond and Interpret

• Drama: Level C description

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

  Students become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Level D description

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

  Students become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Foundation Level description

  In Foundation, students explore drama and learn about how they can make drama to communicate ideas and stories. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.

  Students are introduced to processes that assist them to make drama about real and imagined situations. They learn...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Level B description

  In Level B, students experience and respond to drama. They explore how drama can represent the world and make drama to represent elements of the world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.

  Students experience different roles and situations related to real life and...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Level A description

  In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Levels 1 and 2 description

  In Levels 1 and 2, students continue their exploration and learning about how ideas and stories can be imagined and communicated through drama. They improvise and create roles, characters and situations and learn about focus and identifying the main idea of the drama. They share their drama with...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Levels 9 and 10 description

  In Levels 9 and 10, students develop more sophisticated approaches to making and responding to drama independently, in small groups, and with their teachers and communities. They continue to explore drama as an art form through improvisation, scripted drama, rehearsal and performance.

  Students...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• VCADRR024

  Respond to drama, expressing what they enjoy and why, and why people in their local area make and perform drama, including drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying where they might experience drama in their community, for example, sharing experiences of attending a Tanderrum, or taking part in a drama performance in their community and considering how drama sustains and communicates cultural knowledge
  • talking about how voices, movement and space are used in drama they make and see
  • connecting to and sharing drama experiences through available digital access
  • discussing ways drama can show people’s different feelings about the world, based on their experiences of the environment and other people

  VCADRR024 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret

• VCADRD030

  Develop skills and techniques of voice and movement to create character, mood and atmosphere and focus dramatic action

  Elaborations

  • varying use of voice, for example, projection, dynamics, pace, pause and pitch, to create and communicate characters’ intentions
  • rehearsing, interacting and negotiating with others in interpretation of scripts to create characters and their relationships
  • adjusting the weight (heaviness or lightness of movement), speed, use of stillness, levels in movement through space, to focus on character and situation and create dramatic action
  • altering voice and movement to show changes in mood and atmosphere, and to create images, effects and an engaging delivery
  • using evaluations to refine practice, for example, ‘How did the performers use the elements of drama and design elements effectively? For what purposes did they make drama? What evidence supports their judgment about the drama?’

  VCADRD030 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Drama Practices

• VCADRE041

  Manipulate combinations of the elements of drama to develop and convey the physical and psychological aspects of roles and characters consistent with intentions in dramatic forms and performance styles

  Elaborations

  • analyse and create performance highlighting subtext, dramatic tension, atmosphere and mood based on the story, setting, dialogue and stage directions
  • apply the conventions of character in particular forms and performance styles, using research to develop understanding of the conventions and refining use of relevant techniques
  • using questions to build an understanding of ways context can influence creative choices, for example, how does the drama relate to the social context in which it was created? What culturally symbolic movements are evident in this drama? What historical influences might be evident in contemporary drama created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples? How are global trends in drama influencing Australian drama?

  VCADRE041 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE029

  Explore dramatic action, empathy and space in improvisations, play-building and scripted drama, to develop characters and situations

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with empathy to develop characters and relationships in drama including considering perspectives, exploring responses and challenging stereotypes
  • exploring physical, fictional and emotional spaces to create characters and situations and imagined feelings, for example, considering questions such as ‘How is the voice, movement, gesture and the body used to represent a character, situation or idea?’
  • manipulating dramatic action and use of available technologies to create different meanings
  • comparing different ways improvisation and scripted drama create characters and action, and evaluating drama from other cultures including considering how they can use specific techniques relating to voice, movement, situation, space and time, and tension in their own work

  VCADRE029 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Explore and Express Ideas