11–12Dance 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

The Dance 11–12 Syllabus provides students with the opportunity to perform, choreograph, research and analyse dance works that communicate and inform life experiences through abstract symbolic movement.

Students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to communicate ideas through performance, choreography and appreciation as the central artistic practices of Dance.

• Through performance, students adapt and apply dance technique to perform dance works in different styles and contexts.
• Through choreography, students create abstract symbolic movements in response to a context and a stimulus that are structured and refined to communicate their intent.
• Through appreciation, students explore dance as an art form, and in cultural, social and personal contexts and they analyse and make judgements about dance works.

Course numbers:

• Dance (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
• Dance (Year 12, 2 units): TBA

Year 11 course structure and requirements

The Year 11 Dance course comprises a study of:

• 120 indicative hours across 3 focus areas.

Appreciation

Students are required to study an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander dance work and a work by an international choreographer.

Year 12 course structure and requirements

The Year 12 Dance course comprises a study of:

• 120 indicative hours across 3 focus areas.

Performance

Students will perform two contrasting solo dance works demonstrating the context and synthesis of the components of performance and communication of the intent.

The two solo dance works must be contrasting in the use of components of performance.

The dance works are to be developed from classwork and during class time.

Choreography

Students will choreograph a solo dance work to be performed by themselves or by another student from the school. They will draw on their research of a prescribed practitioner from the HSC Dance prescriptions as stimulus for the choreographed dance work.

Simple props and costumes that are integral to the Choreography are permitted.

Appreciation

Students will study the prescribed dance work from the HSC Dance prescriptions, focusing on an analysis of  context and the components of appreciation.

Students will research ONE prescribed practitioner from the HSC Dance prescriptions, their context and body of work.

Some students with disability may require adjustments to engage in performance, choreography and/or appreciation.