Dance

Performing Arts

VCE

VCE Dance provides opportunities for students to explore the potential of movement as a means of creative expression and communication. In VCE Dance students create and perform their own dance works as well as studying the dance works of others through performance and analysis. In each unit, students undertake regular and systematic dance training to develop their physical skills and advance their ability to execute a diverse range of expressive movements. Students also develop and refine their choreographic skills by exploring personal and learnt movement vocabularies. They study ways other choreographers have created and arranged movement to communicate an intention and create their own dance works. Students perform learnt solo and group dance works and their own works. They also analyse ways that ideas are communicated through dance and how dance styles, traditions and works can influence dance practice, the arts, artists and society more generally.

Assessment activities

  • analysis of choreography
  • choreograph and perform solo/group dance works
  • describe and demonstrate safe dance moves and dancers’ physiology
  • written/oral reports
  • exams.

Selection advice

This study is suitable for students who enjoy dance as well as choreographing dance routines. Students will be required to work independently on solo work as well as be effective team members in group work.

Links to further pathways

VCE Dance prepares students to be creative, innovative and productive contributors to society as professional and social performers and makers of new dance works. The study also prepares students to be discerning, reflective and critical viewers of dance and provides pathways to training and tertiary study in dance performance and associated careers within the dance industry.