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CLASSES WE OFFER

Ballet --

Get Up & Move

Contemporary --

On Your Feet

Jazz --

Let’s Do It

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria

Dance to Your Own Tune (DTYOT)

Through participation in the Dance to Your Own Tune curriculum, children can:

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• move with increased control, co-ordination and confidence

• move with an awareness of the body and an understanding of how it moves through space

• demonstrate a developing sensitivity to music through movement

• express feelings and emotions through movement.

Dance to Your Own Tune demonstration classes are not assessed.

Pre-Primary in Dance and Primary in Dance

On successful completion of a course of study based on Pre-Primary in Dance and Primary in Dance, students,

through participation and practice, will be able to:

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• articulate parts of the body

• demonstrate awareness of positions of the body

• perform with an awareness of space

• demonstrate control and co-ordination

• demonstrate elevation

• demonstrate use of appropriate movement dynamics

• respond to the elements of music

• perform expressively

• perform a sequence of simple steps to depict a story

• confidently recall the settings

Grade 1

  • be able to demonstrate appropriate technique through the performance of basic movement sequences and dances in ballet

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  • be able to shoawareness of musicality through the performance of basic movement sequences and dances in ballet

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  • be able to show awareness of performance skills in basic movement sequences and dances in ballet

Grade 2

  • be able to demonstrate appropriate technique through the performance of simple movement sequences and dances in ballet

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  • be able to show awareness of musicality through the performance of simple movement sequences and dances in ballet

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  • be able to show awareness of performance skills in simple movement sequences and dances in ballet

Grade 3

  • be able to demonstrate appropriate technique through the performance of simple to moderate movement sequences and dances in ballet

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  • be able to show awareness of musicality through the performance of simple to moderate movement sequences and dances in ballet

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  • be able to show awareness of musicality through the performance of simple to moderate movement sequences and dances in ballet

Grade 4

  • be able to demonstrate appropriate technique through the performance of moderate movement sequences and dances in ballet

  • be able to show awareness of musicality through the performance of moderate movement sequences and dances in ballet

  • be able to show awareness of performance skills in moderate movement sequences and dances in ballet

Grade 5

  • be able to demonstrate appropriate technique through the performance of intermediate movement sequences and dances in ballet

  • be able to show awareness of musicality through the performance of intermediate movement sequences and dances in ballet

  • be able to show awareness of performance skills in intermediate movement sequences and dances in ballet

Intermediate Foundation

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of moderately challenging movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of the vocabulary and technique of ballet

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of moderately challenging movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of musicality in ballet

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of moderately challenging movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of performance skills in ballet

Intermediate

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of challenging movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of the vocabulary and technique of ballet

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of challenging movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of musicality in ballet

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of challenging movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of performance skills in ballet

Advanced Foundation

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of increasingly advanced movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of the vocabulary and technique of ballet

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of increasingly advanced movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of musicality in ballet

  • apply and demonstrate, through performance of a range of increasingly advanced movement sequences, fundamental and relevant knowledge and secure understanding of performance skills in ballet

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