Safe Dance Practice
Anatomy, alignment, warm-up and injury prevention as the basis of sustainable training.
- Safe Dance Practice
- Anatomy and Alignment
- Warm-Up and Cool-Down
NSW Dance Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Dance” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Anatomy, alignment, warm-up and injury prevention as the basis of sustainable training.
Technique, interpretation and the compositional process used to generate and structure movement.
Analysing dance works, understanding context, and the Australian practitioners studied.
The Major Study in performance, composition or appreciation, and the analysis it requires.
A Dance paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–6 |
| assess | Short answer | 3–5 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| discuss | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–5 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–5 |
HSC Dance - Written Paper Shape — 40 marks, 60 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.