Curriculum+Level+8+The+Arts

Curriculum levels

=Level Eight The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Investigate, analyse, and discuss the features, history, issues, and development of dance in New Zealand, including the contribution of selected individuals and groups. • Extend and refine skills, practices, and use of technologies in a range of dance genres and styles. • Develop a concept and produce original dance works, using appropriate production technologies to communicate choreographic intentions. • Record and critically reflect on the development and resolution of dance ideas. • Select and apply rehearsal processes, performance skills, and production technologies to enhance the communication and expression of dance works. • Critically analyse, interpret, and evaluate the artistic features and the communication of ideas in a range of dance works.

Drama
Students will: • Research, analyse, and critically evaluate how drama, including New Zealand drama, interprets, records, or challenges social and cultural discourse. • Research, analyse, and integrate elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies in dramatic forms for specific purposes. • Research, critically evaluate, and refine ideas to create original drama work. • Analyse, rehearse, and perform works in a range of dramatic forms, assuming a variety of artistic or technical responsibilities. • Reflect on and critically evaluate a wide range of works and performances.

Music – Sound Arts
Students will: • Research, analyse, and evaluate the production and presentation of music works from historical, social, and cultural contexts. • Apply their understandings of the expressive qualities of music from a range of contexts to analyse its impact on their own music practices. • Analyse, apply, and evaluate signifi cant expressive features and stylistic conventions and technologies in a range of music, using aural perception and practical and theoretical skills. • Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions and musical arrangements, using secure technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings. • Reflect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions. • Plan, rehearse, present, record, evaluate, and refi ne performances of music, individually and collaboratively, demonstrating interpretive understandings. • Critically analyse and evaluate the expressive qualities of music and production processes in order to refine interpretations of music.

Visual Arts
Students will: • Use research and analysis to investigate contexts, meanings, intentions, and technological influences related to the making and valuing of art works. • Research and analyse contexts relevant to their intentions and to the expression of meanings in their own work. • Apply understanding from broad and deep research into the characteristics and constraints of materials, techniques, technologies, and established conventions in a selected field. • Extend and refine skills in a selected field, using appropriate processes and procedures. • Generate, analyse, clarify, and regenerate options in response to selected questions or a proposal in a chosen field. • Use a systematic approach, selectively informed by recent and established practice, to develop ideas in a body of work. • Research and analyse selected approaches and theories related to visual arts practice. • Critically reflect on, respond to, and evaluate art works.