11–12Dance Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025)
The new Dance Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the Dance Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2009).
2026
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Continue to teach the Dance Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2009) for Year 12
2027, Term 4
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 12
Content
Life Skills
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
In Performance, students develop knowledge and skills in safe dance practices and techniques to perform dance works in different styles and contexts to communicate an idea or intent. Students follow class protocols and help create safe and inclusive spaces. They use the language of dance performance and develop an understanding of how dance training supports performance in a range of dance styles and contexts. They have opportunities to explore the elements of dance in performance and to participate in dance performance in cultural, social or personal contexts.
Engage in protocols and responsibilities to establish safe and inclusive creative spaces
Participate in dance as an art form and in other contexts
Engage in dance movements from various styles
Identify relationships between dance training and dance styles
Participate in dance experiences in a range of contexts
Recognise and use the language of dance performance, including context, dance technique, genre, style or interpretation
Identify the skeletal structures, major muscle groups or mobility aids used in movement
Identify the importance of skeletal structures or major muscle groups to safeguard the body for movement
Engage in healthy practices to develop and maintain a body safe for dance
Participate in dance training to develop dance technique
Demonstrate increasingly complex combinations of body skills relative to anatomical structure
Move the body in response to various music styles and sounds
Explore how the dancer uses music to express feelings or ideas
Perform movements with a sense of musicality
Perform movements with a sense of commitment and confidence
Perform movements with a sense of purpose and feeling
Reflect on and communicate individual progress to improve performance
Purposefully move all or part of the body to explore space
Purposefully move all or part of the body to explore time
Purposefully move all or part of the body to explore dynamics
Manipulate the body using the elements of dance to communicate a personal interpretation
Perform phrases of movement to communicate an idea or intent
Recognise auditory elements of a dance work
Identify changes in auditory elements at different parts of a dance work