Curriculum+Level+5+The+Arts

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Five The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Compare and contrast dances from a variety of past and present cultures and contexts. • Develop a variety of skills, dance techniques, vocabularies, and movement practices. • Manipulate the elements and explore the use of choreographic devices and structures to organise dance movement. • Prepare, rehearse, and perform dance with an awareness of production technologies. • Reflect on and describe how choreography communicates ideas, feelings, moods, and experiences.

Drama
Students will: • Investigate the characteristics, purposes, and function of drama in a range of contexts. • Select and use techniques, conventions, and relevant technologies for specific drama purposes. • Select and refine ideas to develop drama for specific purposes. • Present and respond to drama and describe how drama combines elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies to create structure and meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound Arts
Students will: • Compare and contrast the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. • Investigate how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities. • Apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, stylistic conventions, and technologies through integrating aural, practical, and theoretical skills. • Use musical elements, instruments, technologies, and conventions to express, develop, and refine structured compositions and improvisations. • Represent compositions and improvisation frameworks, using appropriate conventions. • Prepare, rehearse, and present performances of music, using a range of performance skills and techniques. • Reflect on the expressive qualities of their own and others’ music, both live and recorded.

Visual Arts
Students will: • Investigate and consider the relationship between the production of art works and their contexts and influences. • Apply knowledge of selected conventions from established practice, using appropriate processes and procedures. • Generate, develop, and refine ideas in response to a variety of motivations, including the study of established practice. • Compare and contrast the ways in which ideas and artmaking processes are used to communicate meaning in selected objects and images.