Dance and Drama Faculty

From the Co-ordinator of Dance and Drama

What is happening in the Junior School Term 4 Dance and/or Drama classes?

The focus for the weekly Dance and/or Drama classes in Junior School for Term 4 focuses on making and creating your own artworks.  

Kindergarten Dance: Students learn to create their own movement through improvisation and exploration of animal movement and characteristics. 

Year 1 Dance: Students engage in a variety of dance exercises that allows them to develop both movement skills and create own dance.  

Year 2 Dance: Students learn to create and sequence combinations together through the improvisation process. 

Year 3 Dance: Students observe, learn and experience social dances and their development.   

Year 4 Dance: The lessons focus on group composition, with particular focus on cannon, unison, duo/solos. Students learn to collaborate creative ideas to form a dance. 

Year 5 Dance Rotations in Performing Arts: Students continue to learn about the influence of cultural and/or social dance styles. They use these to inform their own dance works and create movement as part of a group project to communicate a message or theme.  

Year 5 Drama Rotations in Performing Arts: Students continue to learn about the development of study influential practitioners or dramatic styles. They will use these skills or knowledge to devise their own dramatic works, roles or characters to communicate a message or theme in a group performance project.   

Year 6 Dance Rotations in Performing Arts: Students will continue to create and perform artistic dance movement in response to stimuli. They will create their own dance movement and learn to piece sequences together to create dance as an artform resulting in the production of small group performance presentations around a given stimuli.  

Year 6 Drama Rotations in Performing Arts: Students will continue to engage in practical improvisation workshops and activities that introduce them to playbuilding. They will learn to apply voice, movement, physical theatre, and/or mime to communicate a message through verbal and non-verbal devices to communicate a message in response to given stimuli.