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Years 9 and 10 · The Arts · Exploring and responding

AC9ADA10E01

investigate performers’ and/or choreographers’ use of elements of dance, choreographic devices, genre- or style-specific techniques, conventions and/or production elements to communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in dance across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Exploring and responding in Years 9 and 10.

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9ADA10E01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 9 and 10.

  1. Years 7 and 8AC9ADA8E01investigate ways that dance works, performers and/or choreographers across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts use the elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or production elements to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
  2. Years 7 and 8AC9ADA8E02investigate the diversity of dance choreographed and/or performed by First Nations Australians considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights

Planning against AC9ADA10E01?

Daily Work Pad reads codes like this one out of your forward plan and carries them onto your lessons and worksheets. The pilot is invite-only for now.