Choreographing a Fight
Students choreograph a fight scene.
Teaching Activities
Costume
Students create costume designs for their cygnet dance.
Dance Video
Students discuss framing and editing, plan camera angles for a dance shoot
Duets
Students prepare a one-minute routine with props.
Floor Dance
Students create a floor phrase where they do not use their hands or stand on their feet.
Graffiti Dance
Students find examples of graffiti and create a phrase based on graffiti images.
Haka
Students create their own Haka.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
Students create a feel good dance. Reflect on their feelings before and after.
Improvisation
Students attempt to expand their solo ideas through improvisation techniques.
Kat’s Choreography
As a whole the class learns a sequence from Kat’s routine. They then create variations of this dance sequence.
Making New Work
Students learn a range of contemporary dance movements and phrases.
One Minute Solo
Students collaborate in pairs as choreographer and dancer to develop a dance solo.
Origins of Contemporary Dance
Students research an Australian modern dance pioneer and construct a timeline of key works.
Roles in a Film Studio
Students look at roles on set and create a “postcard” of a set and bring it to life for 15 seconds.
Salsa – Experimenting with Form
Students improvise with the basic salsa steps.
Space – Body Shape
Body shape is explored through improvisation of shapes – call and response method with reflective activity.
Space – Spatial Organisation
Students choreograph pathways in space using their initials as impetus.
Spatial Design
Students learn about symmetry and asymmetry in pairs and as a group. They apply spatial arrangements of groups to an existing dance.
Sporty Dance
Students select movement from three different sports and create a dance.
Storyboarding
Students create a dance, photograph or draw it and arrange as a storyboard. Extension activity rearranging the elements.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
The Hip Hop Story
Students learn about the history of hip hop and based on freezes and poses create a simple hip hop phrase.
Tied Together
Practical activity where pairs of students perform activities as one person, taking into account the other’s point of view.