VCE Dance flashcards
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- Prescribed list of dance works
- The annually published VCAA list of dance works that Units 3 and 4 students must study and analyse for the written examination and School-assessed Coursework.
- Choreographer's intention
- The purpose or meaning the choreographer intends to communicate through movement, form, and production elements; students must explain how the work realises this intention.
- Movement vocabulary
- The specific steps, gestures, and body actions that make up a dance work and give it a recognisable physical style and identity.
- Spatial organisation
- How dancers are arranged and move through the performance space, including formations, pathways, levels, direction, and use of stage areas.
- Dynamics in dance
- The qualities of movement energy and force, such as sustained, percussive, swinging, or vibratory, that shape how a movement is performed.
- Production elements
- The non-movement components of a dance work, including music or sound, costume, lighting, set, and props, which contribute to meaning and atmosphere.
- Cultural context of a work
- The social, historical, and cultural setting in which a dance work originated, shaping its movement style, themes, and performance conventions.
- Choreographic form
- The overall structure of a dance work, such as narrative, abstract, or thematic, and how sections are organised and sequenced across the whole.
- Group performance
- A teacher-directed dance work performed by the class in Unit 3, assessed through School-assessed Coursework rather than as a prescribed work.
- Solo performance examination
- The externally assessed Unit 4 task in which each student creates and performs an original solo demonstrating choreographic and performance skills.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance
- Dance practices of First Nations peoples of Australia, carrying cultural meaning, story, and connection to Country; works on the prescribed list must be studied respectfully.
- Dance analysis
- A structured written response that describes movement, interprets intention, and evaluates how production elements and context shape audience meaning.
- Comparison of dance works
- An analytical response identifying similarities and differences between two prescribed works in style, context, movement vocabulary, and production elements.
- School-assessed Coursework
- Internal assessment tasks set by the school for Units 3 and 4, marked against published criteria and statistically moderated by the VCAA.
- Statistical moderation
- The VCAA process that adjusts school coursework marks using external examination results to ensure comparability across schools and cohorts.
- Study score
- A score out of 50 summarising a student's overall performance across School-assessed Coursework and external examinations in a VCE study.
- Assessment handbook
- The VCAA document specifying assessment tasks, criteria, weightings, and administrative requirements for each VCE study in a given year.
- Outcome-based assessment
- Assessment where each unit outcome must be demonstrated for satisfactory completion; marks alone do not substitute for meeting the outcome.
- Authentication of student work
- The process by which teachers verify that submitted assessment work is the student's own, supported by records of drafting and supervision.
- Performance examination
- The external examination in which students perform their created solo before assessors, marked against published performance criteria.
- Written examination
- The external written paper assessing knowledge of prescribed works, dance analysis, terminology, and understanding of the choreographic process.
- Assessment criteria
- The published descriptors used to judge student work, such as understanding of choreographic intention, use of movement vocabulary, and quality of analysis.
- Satisfactory completion
- The award of a unit when the student has demonstrated all outcomes; failure to meet any outcome prevents the unit being awarded.
- Assessment task
- A specific activity set by the school to gather evidence of student achievement for an outcome, such as an analysis or a choreographic presentation.
- Structured analysis task
- A School-assessed Coursework task requiring students to analyse a prescribed work using dance terminology, evidence from the work, and interpretation.
- Choreographic process
- The stages of creating a dance work, including research, improvisation, selection, structuring, and refining movement into a final composition.
- Solo creation
- The Unit 4 process in which a student devises, develops, and refines an original solo, documenting intention, movement choices, and production decisions.
- External assessment
- Assessment set and marked by the VCAA rather than the school, comprising the performance examination and the written examination in Dance.
- Internal assessment
- Assessment conducted by the school against VCAA criteria, subject to moderation, comprising School-assessed Coursework in Units 3 and 4.
- Weighting of assessments
- The percentage contribution each assessment component makes to the final study score, specified in the assessment handbook for the study.
- Dance terminology
- The specialised vocabulary used to describe movement, such as elevation, extension, alignment, focus, and dynamics, required in written responses.
- Performance skills
- The qualities demonstrated by a dancer, including focus, projection, musicality, alignment, and accuracy of movement, assessed in performance tasks.
- Moderation of coursework
- The adjustment of school-assessed marks using external examination performance to ensure fairness across schools with differing marking standards.