Dance 7–10 Syllabus (2003)
Find out more about the Dance 7–10 Syllabus (2003) and access teaching and learning support materials.
New syllabus implemented from 2026
The new Dance 7–10 Syllabus (2023) is to be implemented from 2026.
• 2024 and 2025 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
• 2026 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Detailed implementation information, including key features and resources, is available on the Creative Arts syllabus development page.
About the course
The study of dance enables young people to participate in and enjoy exploring the world through dance’s forms and ideas from a variety of historical and contemporary contexts. Students, investigate, critically reflect and respond by creating and performing dance, developing their expressive skills through movement.
Dance provides students with opportunities to experience and enjoy dance as an artform as they perform, compose and appreciate dance. In an integrated study of the practices of performance, composition and appreciation, students develop both physical skill and aesthetic, artistic and cultural understandings. The course enables students to express ideas creatively and to communicate physically, verbally and in written forms as they make, perform and analyse dances and dance forms.
The Dance Years 7–10 syllabus includes Life Skills outcomes and content for students with special education needs.
All students study dance performance, composition and appreciation. They learn about the elements of dance (space, time and dynamics) and how they are used in, and link, the three practices. They learn about performing dances with an awareness of safe dance practice, dance technique and performance quality. They learn about how dance expresses ideas, feelings and experiences as they construct dance compositions to communicate ideas. They learn about people, culture and society as they study and analyse dance performances, compositions and dance works of art.
Students learn to develop an articulate body as they perform a range of dances in a variety of styles with a working knowledge of safe dance practice. They learn to structure movement as they compose dances to express their ideas, feelings and experiences. They learn to use the language of dance and to describe movements using the elements of dance as they view, discuss, read and write about dance. Drawing from their experiences gained in performing, composing and appreciating dances, they learn to make connections between the making and performing of the movement and the appreciation of its meaning.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 2000 Dance 200 hours
- 2001 Dance 100 hours
- 2002 Dance Life Skills 200 hours
- 2003 Dance Life Skills 100 hours
Exclusions: Students may not access both the Dance Years 7–10 outcomes and content and the Dance Life Skills outcomes and content.
Students may undertake either 100 or 200 hours of study in Dance in Stage 4 and/or Stage 5.
Information about curriculum requirements for the RoSA are available on Assessment Certification Examination (ACE).
Assessment information and support
Teaching and learning support
Use these support materials to guide and plan your teaching and assessment.
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.