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Levels 3 and 4

Levels 3 and 4 Description

In Levels 3 and 4, students make and respond to dance independently, collaboratively with peers and teachers, and as an audience for other dancers’ work.

Students extend their awareness of how the whole body and different parts, zone and bases can be used to communicate ideas. They explore and experiment with the elements of dance (direction, time, dynamics and relationships) and extend their movement and technical skills.

Students experience dance from a range of cultures, times and locations, and explore how these dances use expressive skills to communicate ideas and tell stories. They also explore the social and cultural contexts of dances they make, perform and view.

Levels 3 and 4 Content Descriptions

Explore and Express Ideas

  1. Improvise and structure movement ideas for dance sequences using safe dance practice, the elements of dance and choreographic devices (VCADAE025)
    Elaborations
    1. using the devices of contrast and repetition to explore and generate new movement ideas in response to stimuli, for example, using repetition to show emphasis
    2. using questions to explore forms and elements of dances they view and make, for example, how shapes are combined and varied in the dance
    3. exploring known movements to find alternative ways of performing them, for example, same action/different level, same action/different body part
    4. completing structured improvisations using choreographic devices of unison, canon, contrast and repetition
    5. working with symmetrical and asymmetrical group formations

Levels 3 and 4 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 4, students structure movements into dance sequences and use the elements of dance and choreographic devices to communicate their ideas and intentions. They make dances and perform safely with control, accuracy, projection and focus.

Students describe and discuss similarities and differences between dances they make, perform and view. They discuss how they and others organise the elements of dance to communicate ideas and intentions.

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