11DAN

Year 11 Dance

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Ms O. Martin.

In this course students will:

-Understand that identity and culture are expressed through dance and engaging with the variety of purposes dance is used for. Being empowered to recognise the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand and build connections across cultures.

- learn to recall and reproduce dance as taught by the choreographer, exploring known and new movement vocabulary to express ideas.

- Understanding Dance as a vehicle for creating, forming, exploring, and sustaining relationships with self, others, and the environment. Using collaborative strategies in and through composition and performance experiences

- Develop literacy skills in a physical sense, in Dance, ākonga process and demonstrate their thinking through movement. They use their bodies to both communicate and interpret the message and purpose of a dance.

- Develop performance skills and experiences while identifying the elements of dance to describe own and others’ choreography

Topics include:

  • Choreography: Communicate with creativity and imagination, using choreographic processes to give form to dance ideas.
  • Performance: prepare, rehearse and perform a range of selected dance genres and styles.
  • Genre study: Understand the relationship between key features and cultural context of a dance genre or style.

Assessment: Four achievement standards each worth 5 credits to offer a total value of 20 credits.

Please note: Open, students must be aware this is a performance based course. There is an expectation that students will participate in a wide variety of dance styles.

Pathway

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

This course is eligible for subject endorsement.

Total Credits Available: 20
Internal Assessed Credits: 11
External Assessed Credits: 9
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91936 v3
NZQA Info

Dance 1.1 - Compose a dance sequence in response to a brief


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91937 v3
NZQA Info

Dance 1.2 - Perform dance sequences


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 6
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91938 v3
NZQA Info

Dance 1.3 - Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between cultural context and key features of a dance genre or style


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91939 v4
NZQA Info

Dance 1.4 - Demonstrate understanding of the elements of dance in a dance sequence


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 20
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

Disclaimer

Courses offered will be subject to sufficient students taking them up and are not necessarily guaranteed to run.