Year 12 Dance

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.