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Whether you’re a beginner exploring movement for the first time, or looking for ideas to further your learning, ARTS:LIVE has you covered! These dance courses and activities are designed to help children of all ages discover the many ways ideas can be articulated, explored and communicated through our bodies and movement.

The courses cover warm ups, dance spaces, improvisation, choreography, dance styles such as hip hop and contemporary dance, and links between dance and other kinds of movement, like sport!

Dance courses on ARTS:LIVE have been created in partnership with some of Australia’s leading dance companies, such as Ausdance, Chunky Move and the NAISDA Dance College.

We’ve previewed all the courses and activities on ARTS:LIVE so you can take a look at what’s on offer. Get exploring today and register for free to access everything you need to unlock the world of dance!

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  • 4 × 45 minute lessons

    Interactive Dance

    Years 9-10
    Explore the ways in which light can contribute an essential element to the development of choreography. See how Australian contemporary dance company, Chunky Move, uses light in innovative ways and then create your own improvisations based on their methods. Through these explorations, you will have the opportunity to develop your technical and expressive skills to communicate your ideas and understanding through dance.
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  • 4 x 45 minute lessons

    Fizzie Dance

    Years 3-6
    Apply your knowledge of sport to create a basic movement phrase and extend it using the elements of dance. Create your own unique Fizzie Dance.
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  • 2 × 45 minute lessons

    From Dance to Sport

    Years 1-6
    Discover the physical and technical skills used in both dance and sport and compare the similarities.
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  • 15 minutes

    Getting Started with Dance

    Primary
    The Dance resources on ARTS:LIVE are designed to give you the confidence to teach dance in any classroom. Dance is a wonderful art form that everyone can engage in. Through our bodies, movement and creativity we discover the many ways ideas can be articulated, explored and communicated.
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  • 3 × 45 minute lessons

    Learn the Alphabet Dance

    Years 1-8, Secondary
    Alphabet Dance combines movement and chant, using your body in a percussive and rhythmic way. It can be performed in any style of dance and can include references to cultures, interests and experiences within the group. The dance requires you to create a series of movements that represents each letter of the alphabet, and then spell some simple words.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    School of Fish

    3-5 Year Olds, Years 1-4
    Follow these dance and drama activities to learn some exciting ways of exploring life as a school of fish. A school of fish moves together in exactly the same way at exactly the same time. Explore what it looks and feels like to be part of a fishy school as we go on an underwater adventure.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Create an Alphabet Dance

    Years 1-8, Secondary
    Create An Alphabet Dance is the second component to creating your own version of the dance. Inventing transition moves and forming simple choruses helps to combine all the elements of the dance. Remembering all the moves is a workout for both your memory and your body!
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  • 1 × 15 and 1 × 45 minute lessons

    Musical Fun with Fuzzy

    0-5 Year Olds, Years 1-2
    Musical Fun With Fuzzy introduces you to the joys of active music-making through singing, speaking, moving, dancing, playing and creating. You will make your own Fuzzy the Clown pop-up puppet and learn the basic elements of music.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    A Hip Hop Routine

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    You are well on your way to becoming a free-styling Hip Hop dancer once you have learned the individual moves and how to combine them. Practising the routine is important in order to improve your memory and coordination, and it will provide a base for improvisation and eventually learning more complicated moves.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    An Introduction to Hip Hop

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    An Introduction to Hip Hop provides the basis to start learning this contemporary and edgy dance. The history of the genre is examined to give context to the dance and to explain why the culture of the dance is so important to its evolution. This is the first of a series in which you will learn a wide range of movement skills and Hip Hop techniques so that you can eventually perform and devise your own choreography.
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  • 4 x 45 minute lessons

    Make Tracks

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Discover perspectives on contemporary Indigenous dance from NAISDA Dance College developing artists and teachers. Watch them rehearse and perform, and use the experience as a springboard for your own dance-making.
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  • 4 x 45 minute lessons

    Create a Song Cycle

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Go on a journey through landscape, guided by Indigenous choreographer Vicki Van Hout. Learn to use techniques such as tracking, mapping and locomotive steps, then bring it all together in your own song cycle.
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