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Dance Stage 1
Subject outline

Version 4.0 - For teaching in 2024
Accredited in June 2019 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2020

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Personal and social capability

Personal and social capability

In this subject students extend and apply their personal and social capability by, for example:

  • developing skills and strategies to increase confidence, resilience, and adaptability, in order to accomplish personal and collaborative goals
  • increasing and applying understanding of posture, alignment, kinaesthetic awareness, and forms of expression
  • increasing awareness of their own physical and mental capabilities and well-being through examination of the mind and body
  • discovering personal identity through participating in the practice of dance
  • exploring artistic, social, or political issues and the ways in which these are interpreted and represented through dance works.