FOUNDATIONS OF DANCE 11
Recommended
Course Credit Course Duration
PHE 10: Foundational Movement
4 credits Full year
• Artistic ability in dance is fully realized through a holistic relationship between body and mind.
• Purposeful artistic choices by the dancer and choreographer enhance the aesthetic experience.
Delivery Method |
Performance and processbased, using a variety of instructional strategies |
DIGITAL FILM 9
Recommended
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None |
This year-long course explores dance as both an art form and a means of creative expression. Students will develop technical skills across various dance styles and experiment with choreography, focusing on movement, structure, and design. Through solo, small-group, and large-group projects, students will create dance compositions using choreographic devices to communicate emotion, intent, and meaning.
The course emphasizes reflection and refinement, with opportunities to receive and apply constructive feedback. Students will examine the roles of dancers, choreographers, and audiences, exploring how cultural, historical, and social contexts influence dance. Topics such as cultural appropriation, ethical issues, and First Peoples perspectives will be integrated throughout the course.
By the end of the year, students will have strengthened their understanding of dance techniques, choreography, and performance while connecting their work to local, regional, and global issues.
The Big Ideas explored in this course are:
• Dance offers unique aesthetic experiences that explore our identity and sense of belonging and have the ability to effect change.
• Dance is informed by the history, culture, and community in which it exists.
• Growth as a dancer and choreographer requires perseverance, resilience, and risk taking.
Course Credit Course Duration
N / A 1 semester
Delivery Method Classroom instruction, individual and collaborative inquiry-based projects, practical hands-on experience
This semester long course covers the foundations of digital filmmaking. Students learn how to communicate stories with the moving image through a combination of technical and theoretical lessons on the elements of film. Through project based learning, students explore the use of basic filming and editing and how to apply these in the creation of their own short films. Hands on classes encourage students to explore, create, reflect, revise and collaborate. Film screenings and presentations introduce students to film analysis, filmmaking vocabulary and the elements of filmmaking. Assessment is standards based, with ongoing formative and summative assessment of course work and project-based assignments.
The Big Ideas explored in this course are:
• Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through arts experiences.
• The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
• Creative arts experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
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