Level 2 Dance Performance
2DANPF Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Miss A. Imlach.
Recommended Prior LearningLevel 1 Dance.
Note: This is not a hip-hop course.
Learn a Musical Theatre and a Cultural or social Dance for live performances
Over the course of this semester, we will work on two different dance styles. The first part of the course will see us learn a theatre dance (a dance performed for public entertainment). We will study the style and technique of our chosen theatre piece/choreographer (ie. Bob Fosse (Choreographer) or Hairspray (Musical), and will research costumes of the era or the choreographer. You as a dancer will perform the final dance piece in costume, on stage, under stage lights, with genre-specific make up in front of a live audience. You will be assessed on how well you individually communicate and comprehend the authentic style of our originally studied choreographer/theatre dance.For the second part of the course, you will learn a cultural dance. Where again you will study the style of dance and be assessed for how well you can execute the specific movement skill and technique of it.
Learning Areas:
Assessment Information
Perform an ethnic or social dance to communicate understanding of the style
involves:
recalling and reproducing the dance in accordance with the demonstration or
description used as a basis for the dance style. For example the dancer is able
to perform the movement without watching other dancers.
Perform a theatre dance to communicate understanding of the dance involves:
recalling and reproducing the dance in accordance with the demonstration or
description used as a basis for the dance style. For example, the dancer is able
to perform the movement without watching other dancers.
conveying aspects of the idea being expressed in the dance