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11–12Dance Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

Record of changes
Implementation from 2027
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

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.

Appreciation: Dance work

In Appreciation: Dance work, students engage with the components of appreciation to explore one or more selected dance works. Students use stimulus, idea, intent, elements of dance, auditory elements, abstract symbolic movement, structure, dancers and theatrical elements to make informed judgements.

Context
  • Explore the ideas communicated in a dance work

  • Identify the genre, style and theme of a dance work

  • Explore the cultural, social or personal context for a dance work

Components of appreciation
  • Respond to aspects of a dance work, including its auditory elements, dancers, elements of dance, or theatrical elements

  • Identify one or more of the elements of dance used in a dance work

  • Identify auditory elements of a dance work and how they have been used to communicate an idea

  • Communicate ideas in relation to the movement of the dancers in a dance work

  • Recognise the structure of a dance work and how it communicates an idea or intent

  • Identify theatrical elements and their purpose in a dance work

  • Express an opinion, preference or interpretation in response to a dance work

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