Dance

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The dance team
The Arts Unit
dance.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au
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Digital resources

Digital @ the Arts Unit’s resource library provides fun and engaging lessons for all students. Dancing like autumn leaves, understanding and appreciating dance to communicate ideas and support for students working towards their HSC are just a few. Teacher professional learning, performance showcases, and podcasts also support the studying and teaching of dance in NSW public schools.

Use the filter function below to curate by stage, format or title. Explore all digital resources or learn more about the Arts Unit Digital engagement program.

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A conversation with the dancers

Creative Class Dance
Year 11 and 12 dance
Analyse HSC dance students' perspectives on the interview and elaboration in the HSC dance practical exam.

Are you supercali-coordinated?

Creative Class Dance
Years 7 to 10 dance

Take the challenge to learn Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Audition tips for dance

Creative Resource Dance

What makes a great dance audition? Here are our top tips.

Autumn leaves

Creative Class Dance Music Visual arts
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 dance, music and visual arts

Use autumn leaves as a stimulus to engage in creative and performing arts.

Be a friend

Creative Class Dance Drama Visual arts
Kindergarten to Year 2 dance, drama and visual arts

Explore different elements of friendship through creative activities.

Beyond the box

Creative Resource Dance
Years 3 to 12
Examine how students collaborated remotely to create dance films about expanding one's imagination.

Beyond the box – choreographic project

Creative Teachers Dance
Teachers, Years 7 to 10 dance
Choreographic project based on a poem devised to assist teachers with the implementation of composition in the Years 7 to 10 dance classroom.

Bollywood time!

Creative Class Dance
Years 7 to 10 dance

Learn movement sequences with a Bollywood influence.

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Boy Overboard

Creative Class Dance
Years 5 and 6 dance

Understand and appreciate dance as a means of communicating ideas.

Callback HSC Dance

Creative Resource Dance Password required
Year 11 and 12
Performances and student panel.

Callback HSC Dance 2022

Creative Resource Dance Password required
Year 11 and 12
This series captures the performance and the student panel that followed the performances of this showcase of HSC Dance.

Communicating ideas through dance

Creative Class Dance
Years 11 and 12 dance
Understand and explore the compositional process. 

Connections Showcase 2021

Creative Resource Dance Drama Music Visual arts
Kindergarten to Year 12 students with a disability and their teachers
Highlights work produced by the amazing talents and abilities of schools across the state, in response to the theme of ‘Found objects.’

Connections Showcase 2022

Creative Resource Dance Drama Music Visual arts
Kindergarten to Year 12 students with a disability and their teachers
This showcase highlights work produced by the amazing talents and abilities of over 260 students from 17 schools across the state in response to the theme of ‘Ours to Share’.

Connections Showcase 2023

Creative Resource Dance Drama Music Visual arts
Kindergarten to Year 12 students with a disability and their teachers
This showcase highlights work produced by the amazing talents and abilities of over 260 students from 17 schools across the state in response to the theme of ‘City, Country, Coast’.

Connections Showcase 2024

Creative Resource Dance Drama Music Visual arts Coming soon
Kindergarten to Year 12 students with a disability and their teachers
An opportunity to celebrate the creativity of our students with disability. Our 2024 theme is 'This is Me' can be interpreted in any way you like and applied to any creative and performing arts projects you and your students focus on throughout the year.

Contemporary choreography

Art Bites Dance
Intermediate / advanced dance
A dive into creative contemporary dance.

Contemporary dance training

Art Bites Dance
Intermediate secondary dance

Activities and techniques to increase stability, mobility and body awareness with Charlotte Twitchell and Pete Evans.

Creating and analysing dance on film

Creative Resource Dance Film
With
Sue Healey
Secondary dance teachers
This e-Learning series provides teachers with the skills and knowledge to create and analyse dance on film.

Creating the Magic – behind the scenes

Creative Resource Dance Drama Music

Come behind the scenes and experience what it takes to create the magic on stage.