TERTIARY & CAREER PATHWAYS:
Ballet Dancer, Choreographer, Director, Fitness Instructor, Theatre/Dance Company Manager, Costume Designer, Dance Teacher, Musical theatre, Physical therapist, Yoga/Pilates Instructor
VCE Dance develops students’ physical skills, personal movement vocabulary, and application of choreographic and analytical principles. Students create and perform their own dance works as well as studying the dance works of others through performance and analysis. They consider influences on the expressive intention and movement vocabulary of their own dances and also works created by choreographers working in a range of styles, genres and traditions. Influences on aspects of production in dance works are also studied.
UNIT 3
This unit focuses on choreography, rehearsal and performance of a solo dance work and involves the physical execution of a diverse range of body actions and use of performance skills. Students learn a group dance work created by another choreographer. The dance-making and performance process involved in choreographing, rehearsing and performing the solo dance work, and learning, rehearsing and performing the learnt group dance work are analysed. Students develop an understanding of choreographic skills through an analysis of ways the expressive intention chosen by the choreographer of twentieth and/or twenty-first century solo dance works selected from the prescribed list of dance works. Students analyse expressive use of movement vocabulary in the selected dance works, and influences on the choreographers’ choice of expressive intention, and production aspects of the dance works.
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UNIT 4
In this unit students choreograph, rehearse and perform a solo dance work with a cohesive structure. When rehearsing and performing this dance work students focus on communicating the intention with accurate execution of choreographic variations of spatial organisation. They explore how they can demonstrate artistry in performance. 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. This analysis focuses on ways in which the intention is expressed through the manipulation of spatial relationships. Students analyse the use of group structures (canon, contrast, unison, and asymmetrical and symmetrical groupings and relationships) and spatial organisation (direction, level, focus and dimension) and investigate the influences on choices made by choreographers in these works.
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VCAA ASSESSMENT – THE OVERALL STUDY SCORE WILL CONSIST OF:
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