VCE Units 3 & 4 - Dance
VCE Units 3 & 4 - Dance
Overview
VCE Dance is designed to further develop students’ understanding and appreciation of dance that is based on innovation, creativity and dance practice across time and place. Unit 3 & 4 Dance prepares students to be discerning, reflective and critical viewers of dance and provides pathways to training and tertiary study in dance performance and associated careers within the dance industry.
Unit 3 – Dance
Students will choreograph, rehearse and perform a skills based solo dance work that allows them to execute a diverse range of physical skills drawn from all movement categories. Students continue regular dance training and learn and perform a group dance work created by another choreographer. Students analyse the realisation of their solo and the learnt group work, focusing on the processes of choreographing or learning, rehearsing, preparing for performance and performing.
Areas of Study
- Dance Perspectives – Analyse two selected solos from the Prescribed list of dance works for Unit 3.
- Choreography, performance and analysis of a skills-based solo dance work – Choreograph, rehearse and perform a skills-based solo dance work and analyse the processes used to realise the solo dance work.
- Dance technique, performance and analysis of a learnt dance work – Learn, rehearse and perform a group dance work by another choreographer and analyse the processes used.
Unit 4 – Dance
In this unit students choreograph, rehearse, and perform a solo dance work with a cohesive structure. Students document and analyse the realisation of the solo dance work across the processes of choreographing, rehearsing, preparing to perform and performing the dance work. Students continue to develop their understanding of the choreographic process through analysis of a group dance work by a twentieth or twenty-first century choreographer.
Areas of Study
- Dance Perspectives – Analyse a selected group dance work from the Prescribed list of dance works for Unit 4.
- Choreography, Performance and Dance-Making Analysis – choreograph, rehearse and perform a composition solo based on a chosen intention, and analyse the choreographic process.
Forms of Assessment
- Dance analysis of prescribed dance works from Prescribed list for Unit 3 & 4 Dance.
- Skills Based Solo performance and analysis
- Composition Solo performance and analysis
- Learnt work performance and analysis
- External Performance Exam – both the Unit 3 & Unit 4 student devised solos will be formally assessed by a panel of VCAA assessors at the end of the year.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Students are expected to have studied and passed Units 1 & 2 Dance.