Curriculum+Level+7+The+Arts

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Seven The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Investigate and evaluate the effects of individual, social, cultural, and technological influences on the development of a variety of dance genres and styles. • Extend skills in the vocabulary, practices, and technologies of selected dance genres and styles. • Choreograph solo and group dance works, using choreographic processes, devices, structures, and technologies to communicate choreographic intentions. • Generate, plan, and record choreographic ideas and processes. • Apply rehearsal and performance skills to a range of dances, using appropriate techniques and expression to communicate specific intentions. • Analyse, explain, and discuss aspects of performance and choreography in a range of dance works.

Drama
Students will: • Research the purposes of production, performance, and technologies of drama in a range of contexts, including New Zealand drama. • Explore how drama reflects our cultural diversity. • Select and refine the use of techniques, conventions, and technologies in specific dramatic forms. • Research, critically evaluate, and refine ideas to develop drama in specific dramatic forms. • Rehearse and perform works in a range of dramatic forms. • Respond to and make critical judgments about rehearsal processes and performances.

Music – Sound Arts
Students will: • Research and analyse music from a range of sound environments, styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts, considering the impact on music making and production. • Apply their understandings of the expressive qualities of music from a range of contexts to a consideration of their influence on their own music practices. • Apply knowledge of expressive features, stylistic conventions, and technologies through an integration of aural perception and practical and theoretical skills and analyse how they are used in a range of music. • Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions and musical arrangements, using technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings. • Refl ect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions. • Prepare, rehearse, present, record, and evaluate sustained performances of music, individually and collaboratively, that demonstrate interpretive understandings. • Analyse and evaluate the expressive qualities of music and production processes to inform interpretations of music.

Visual Arts
Students will: • Research and analyse the infl uences of contexts on the characteristics and production of art works. • Research and analyse the influence of relevant contexts on their own work. • Apply understanding from research into a range of established practice to extend skills for particular art-making purposes, using appropriate processes and procedures in selected fields. • Extend skills, in a range of materials, techniques, and technologies. • Generate, analyse, clarify, and extend ideas in a selected fi eld related to established practice. • Use a systematic approach to the development of ideas in a body of work. • Research and analyse how art works are constructed and presented to communicate meanings. • Use critical analysis to interpret and respond to art works.