Year Level 5 & 6

Transitions – Putting the puzzle together These dance activities introduce transitional movements between shapes, movements, phrases of movement, and sections of dance. These movements may be referred to as linking movements, transitional movements, or transitions.

My Dance Journal Journals are an important part of artistic practice. Many choreographers and dancers use them to incubate ideas, improve practice, and tease out abstract concepts.

Exploring movement through improvisation activities helps children to create new ideas for choreography. It begins the process of criticism, as they evaluate their own and others’ movements, children decide what could be valuable to investigate further. These dance activities demonstrate

Integrated Learning Area – The Arts It’s important that children understand what is expected of them as an audience member in a theatre or at a performance. This quiz is great as a discussion starter. The examples are taken from

Integrated Learning Area – Mathematics & Drama An important part of learning about dance is how to behave as an audience member. Many children will have limited experience of live performance. Watching a performance can be exciting, and a little

Space: Where? This element is about how the dancer uses space in various ways. This happens by using:

When working with a partner you must always be careful and respectful when making contact with each other. Work slowly and carefully and with each other’s safety in mind.

Integrated Learning Area – The Humanities & Social Sciences These dance activities focus on the social dance of the 1950’s. Through student research into social dances and choreographing new ones, it examines the effect of people, time, and place on