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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.

Choreography: Dance work

In Choreography: Dance work, students explore how the components of choreography are used by a practitioner in their body of work and use this as a stimulus to individually or collaboratively choreograph a dance work. Students use stimulus, idea, intent, elements of dance, auditory elements, abstract symbolic movement and structure to choreograph a dance work.

Context
  • Choose a preferred practitioner or body of work

  • Draw inspiration from the selected practitioner or body of work when participating in choreographing a dance work

  • Identify the idea, intent, genre and/or style of the dance work

  • Demonstrate safety considerations when participating in choreographing a dance work

  • Demonstrate cultural considerations when participating in choreographing a dance work

Components of choreography
  • Identify movements that may be suitable for a dance work

  • Select symbolic movements that can be used to communicate an idea in a dance work

  • Use auditory elements to communicate an idea or intent in a dance work

  • Structure an original dance work to communicate an idea or intent

  • Create a dance work using the elements of dance and phrases of movement to communicate an idea or intent

  • Reflect on and refine the dance work

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