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WS01 - Snow play

Dance, Foundation Year

By the end of the Foundation year, students describe experiences, observations, ideas and/or feelings about arts works they encounter at school, home and/or in the community.

 

Students use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to create and share arts works in different forms.

Developing practices and skills

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use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to discover possibilities and develop ideas

Creating and making

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create arts works that communicate ideas

Presenting and performing

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share their arts works with audiences

Annotations

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1

Use legs (as body base) when kneeling on floor and make eye contact with the audience while facing the front (using element of space).

 5 6 20 40
2

Stick out tongue (use of body part) to mimic catching snowflakes and licking snow, one by one (in canon), making eye contact with other dancers.

 5 7 25 40
3

Use twisting (non-locomotor movement) to move from kneeling (medium level) to lying on back (low level), maintaining spatial awareness.

 7 12 20 40
4

Use legs and arms to repeat short percussive movements (using elements of time and dynamics) from a symmetrical star shape to arms by side and legs together, to mimic making snow angels.

 12 15 15 60
5

Use non-locomotor movement to move from floor (low level) to standing (high level) in canon.

 16 18 20 40
6

Use wide-legged stamping (locomotor movement with strong dynamics) to mimic stamping in snow, then move in a line in a semi-circular pathway (using element of space) all together (in unison).

 17 22 15 40
7

Use controlled falling (non-locomotor movement) in canon to move from standing to floor and land face down (on front body zone).

 22 23 15 90
8

Use spatial awareness and small movements to come to final spreadeagled and still shape, in which stillness communicates the end of the dance.  

 23 26 25 60
9

Maintain focus throughout the dance and use fundamental movement skills. 

 26 27 25 60
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