Year 12 Dance
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms O. Martin.
Course Description: Dancers at Motueka High School will:
- Extend skills in the vocabulary, practices and technologies of selected dance genres and styles
- Choreograph group dance works
- Generate, plan and record choreographic ideas and processes
- Apply rehearsal and performance skills to a range of dances
Level 2 dance students will get the opportunity to attend live performances and work with professional companies and choreographers.
Topics included, but not limited to:
Perform a social or ethnic dance and perform a theatre dance – Extend skills in the vocabulary, practices and technologies of selected dance genres and styles. Theatre dance to be decided by the class, for example: Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Hip-hop etc. Social or ethnic dance could include: Bollywood, Samoan Siva, Salsa etc.
Choreograph a solo or group dance to communicate an intention – Choreograph solo or group dance works, using choreographic processes, devices and structures to communicate choreographic intentions.
Demonstrate a change of choreographic processes - Generate, plan and record choreographic ideas and processes. Study choreographers to learn about their process in creating dance, review these in accordance with your own choreography. Take part in a series of workshops that develop your understanding of choreography.
Assessment:
See Standards below
Prerequisites: Open to all students. Please note this is a performance based course and it is an expectation students will experience and demonstrate a range of dance styles.
This course leads to: Level 3 Dance.
Recommended Prior Learning
Open to all students. Please note this is a performance based course and it is an expectation students will experience and demonstrate a range of dance styles.
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Dance 2.1 - Choreograph a group dance to communicate an intention
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Dance 2.3 - Perform an ethnic or social dance to communicate understanding of the style
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Dance 2.4 - Perform a theatre dance to communicate understanding of the dance
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Dance 2.5 - Perform a repertoire of dance
Disclaimer
Courses offered will be subject to sufficient students taking them up and are not necessarily guaranteed to run.