Infants Dance Showcase

We are very excited about our upcoming Infants Dance Showcase next Wednesday 6th April at 2:10pm.  Please refer to the 3 notes sent home for all the details on the event.

K - 2 Dance Diaries

Review of K-2 Learning in Dance - Term 1 2022

This term in Dance, K-2 students have developed knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes in Performing, Composing and Appreciating by engaging with the elements of dance (action dynamics, time, space, relationships and structure) through a range of contexts within a planned and sequential process of teaching and learning. 

• Performing 

Performing involved developing bodily competence and confidence using the elements of dance with expressive qualities. Students also interpreted dance to communicate moods, feelings and ideas. Use of safe dance practice with physical skills and techniques appropriate to body types and physical ability was a fundamental part of our learning this term.

• Composing
  

Composing in dance involves students developing an understanding of the basic components of dance:  movement, sound and physical settings and how these relate to why people dance, what a dance is about and what effect a dance might create. In composing, students responded to a stimulus such as movement itself, poems, narratives, visual images, events, issues and music. Through problem-solving tasks, they explored and played with movement by improvising with basic movement ideas. 

• Appreciating

Appreciation involved responding to dance works by viewing, talking, writing and reading. Students were provided with opportunities to analyse, value and reflect on their own work and the work of others in terms of personal, cultural and structural meanings. Students responded to dances they viewed through guided questions such as: Who is dancing? Where is the dance taking place? What kind of dance is being performed and how? How have the elements been used? What ideas, feelings and moods are being expressed? How are these created? 

(source: Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus (2006) PDF)

Dancers of the Week:

Stay tuned for next week’s ‘K - 2 Dance Diaries’ article.  

Nicola Jackson
Kinder to Year 2 RFF Teacher