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Dance Stage 1
Subject outline

Version 4.0 - For teaching in 2024
Accredited in June 2019 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2020

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Learning requirements

Learning requirements

The learning requirements summarise the knowledge, skills, and understanding that students are expected to develop and demonstrate through their learning in Stage 1  Dance.

In this subject students are expected to:

  1. develop knowledge and understanding of the body, dance skills, dance elements, structural devices, production elements, and safe dance practices
  2. apply technical and expressive dance skills in performance
  3. communicate choreographic intent to an audience through composition and performance
  4. reflect on their own creative works as an artist and that of others as an audience member
  5. investigate dance in diverse contexts.