TKI - Dance units - Levels 6-8

Level 8 unit: The Production

Overall duration: 30 hours

This unit is based on the following Level 8 learning example from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum (page 30):

Choreograph a dance that expresses a viewpoint on an issue of importance to the local community, for example conservation, law and order.
Incorporate it in a programme of dance for a public audience, and take responsibility for planning, rehearsing, promoting, and performing the programme.
Use cycles of action and reflection to support and evaluate the rehearsal processes and the performance of the programme.

Strand PK – Developing Practical Knowledge in Dance: Students will extend their dance skills in the vocabularies, practices and technologies of a range of dance forms.
Strand UC – Understanding Dance in Context: Students will research the ways in which dance explores and reflects social, cultural, and historical issues. Students will research the contribution of selected individuals or groups to dance in New Zealand.
Strand DI – Developing Ideas in Dance: Students will initiate and develop dance works that express a point of view on selected issues, concepts, and themes. Students will initiate and develop dance choreography to explore the relationships between dance and other arts disciplines.
Strand CI – Communicating and Interpreting in Dance: Students will select, promote, and perform a programme of dance works. Students will critically analyse, respond to, and evaluate their own and others' communication and interpretation in dance performances and dance works.

Students will:

choreograph a group dance on a specific issue that has relevance to their local community
incorporate this work in a programme of dance for a public audience
take responsibility for planning, rehearsing, promoting and performing the programme
record in their journals an evaluation of the rehearsal processes, the administration and organisation of the programme, and its eventual performance