VCE Units 1 & 2 - Dance

VCE Units 1 & 2 - Dance

Overview

VCE Dance provides opportunities for students to explore the potential of movement as a means of creative expression and communication. In Unit 1 and 2 VCE Dance students create and perform their own dance works as well as studying the dance works of others through performance, choreography and analysis.

Unit 1 Dance

Explores the potential of the body as an instrument of expression and communication in conjunction with the regular and systematic development of physical dance skills.

Areas of Study

1. Dance perspectives – Analyse another choreographer’s work and discuss the way movement vocabulary has been manipulated to communicate the intention.
2. Choreography and performance– Choreograph and rehearse a skill based solo, duo /or trio work in any chosen dance style and perform work in front of a live audience.
3. Dance technique and performance– Learn, rehearse and refine a group work devised by another choreographer and perform in front of a live audience.
4. Awareness and maintenance of the dancer’s body – Describe key approaches to wellbeing and health practices for dancers and essential aspects of physiology and demonstrate the safe use and maintenance of the dancer’s body.

Unit 2 Dance

In this unit students extend their personal movement vocabulary and skill in using a choreographic process by exploring elements of movement and choreographic devices to devise a composition work based around a chosen intention.

Areas of Study:

1. Dance perspectives – Analyse the ways movement categories, elements of movement and group structures can be manipulated to communicate an intention in various dance traditions, styles and works.
2. Choreography & Performance – Using the choreographic process, students will choreograph and refine a composition solo, duo / or trio based around a chosen intention and perform in front of a live audience.
3. Dance technique and performance– Safely and securely perform a learnt group work devised by another choreographer in front of a live audience and report on the realisation of the dance work.

Forms of Assessment

Dance analysis of prescribed works, Solo, duo /or trio composition (to be performed to a live audience at Dance Showcase Evening), Learnt work (to be performed to a live audience at Dance Showcase Evening), Body maintenance test

Prerequisites and Corequisites

It is an advantage to have completed Year 10 Dance.