Australia Dancing
Oral history interviews and biographies of Australian dancers as well as links to dance resources in Australia.
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  Curriculum Standard 6

Make connections between dance and healthful living.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

• Explain strategies to prevent dance injuries.
• Create their own warm-up movements; discuss how that warm-up prepares the body and mind for expressive purposes.
• Know that people use a variety of movement therapies, such as occupational therapy and Feldenkrais, and movement forms, such as Tai Chi and yoga, to improve their health and well being.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:

• Communicate how lifestyle choices, such as smoking, drug use or diet, affect the dancer.
• Analyze and discuss historical and cultural images of the body and compare these images to presentation of the body in contemporary media.

Additional Proficiency Standards Grades 9-12
In addition to the above, students will be able to:

• Analyze challenges facing professional performers in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

  Curriculum Standard 8

Identify the range of careers in the field of dance.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

• Describe the value and significance of dance in everyday life.
• Describe a variety of performance, production, and related careers in dance.
• Identify the range of opportunities for individual skills to be used in local dance productions.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:

• Describe ways in which dance influences everyday life.
• Create an extensive list of dance-related careers.
• Identify and discuss a variety of employment and financial opportunities for people who choose a career in dance.
• Discuss how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of life skills.

Additional Proficiency Standards Grades 9-12
In addition to the above, students will be able to:

• Compose a list of questions to identify specific skills and knowledge needed to enter a particular dance-related career and seek answers from a variety of community sources.