The dance program may lead to careers in:  

• entertainment
• film making
• stage craft
• acting
• costuming
• social work
• teaching
• media
• set design

The Arts

A well developed, innovative arts program is conducted at Greenwood Senior High School incorporating dance, drama, media, music and visual arts. All of these programs are designed to develop:

• creative skills
• critical appreciation
• artistic techniques and technologies
• cultural awareness

At present 150 students are involved in the dance program from Year 8 to Year 12 with increasing applications in recent years, an indication of its popularity. Through performance, dance students have an opportunity for collaboration with the departments of drama, music and design and technology.  All students in the dance program also undertake courses incorporating the whole range of outcomes expressed in the Curriculum Framework.

Dance Program

• Enrolment
• applications are invited from students statewide
• 50 places are available in each year
• auditions are conducted in Term 4

The Dance Program

Is taught by experienced and successful staff with input from visiting specialists which involves a wide variety of dance genre:

• acrobatics
• traditional
• ballet
• jazz
• tribal
• street funk
• contemporary
• cheerleading
• tap
• neo-classical 

 Provides many opportunities for student performances at:

• Dance Festival (UWA)
• Joondalup Festival
• Rock Eisteddfod
• School Tours
• Choreography Night
• School assemblies

Offers the student an opportunity to organise and stage significant performances such as Greenwood Senior High School Choreography Night.   encourages an understanding of the cultural and social significance of dance facilitates the development of choreographic costuming and set design knowledge and skills promotes the use of technology.

Year 11 and 12   Dance  Units 2A/2B 2ADAN/2BDAN 

Unit 2ADAN – Popular Culture
Unit 2BDAN – Australian Dance

Pre-requisites
• Units 1ADAN/1BDAN

Commitment
Students who select this subject should be self-motivated, independent and determined as there is a strong focus on solo work. Students will learn a pre-choreographed solo and they are required to choreograph their own solo in a genre of their choice for the practical part of their examination. It is important students who choose this subject are creative and are flexible as well as being self disciplined in order to learn various dance techniques.

The main techniques that will be studied in this course are:
• Contemporary
• Jazz
• Tap
• Cultural Dance/Hip Hop

Students will be required to perform in a number of the genres listed above whilst applying the correct technique for the chosen style. There will be a focus on dance and technology and how the two intertwine. In groups, the students will have the opportunity to choreograph and make a dance video clip. They will also need to review and respond to dance on TV and in film as part of a written assignment.

In the stage 2 units the students will be introduced into case studies with reference to Australian dance companies, choreographers and dancers, which will be included in their final written examination. The practical exam is comprised of solos, an improvisation and an interview.