By Ausdance Victoria

Dance | Drama | Self Expression 

Awaken your student’s creative capacity while boosting health and well-being.

Dance isn’t just about learning choreography and performing like a pro. It’s also a wonderful way to boost students physical and emotional health and well-being. 

Our Supercharged! incursion brings highly experienced, specialist dance teachers to your school for a fun, stimulating and energetic dance making activity. Your students will develop an understanding of dance elements and discover the fun and power of dance! 

Supercharged! encourages students to explore the potential of their bodies to communicate and respond to specific ideas. They will learn to apply elements of dance in an accessible and inclusive way, play games, learn dance sequences and express their creativity. Each session culminates in the co-create a short dance piece focused on superpowers. 

Our expert teaching artists will have your students popping with excitement and enthusiasm for the entire session. Students will have fun, move heaps and discover that anyone can dance! 

Participating schools will also receive a pack of Activate! Dance Cards, a library of short dance games (F-6) and challenges (7-10) aligned to the Victorian Curriculum, Dance, designed to increase activity levels and build dance literacy. 

Supercharged! is ideal for primary school students in levels 3-6, however younger year levels can also be accommodated.  Activate! Dance Cards can also be used with years 7-10 to broaden the experience in your school.

Packages are built around: 

• Half Day (maximum 2 sessions) 
• Full Day (maximum 4 sessions) 
• Multi-Day (more than 5 sessions) 

Supercharged! is best hosted in an open space, where students can easily move with arms outstretched, without touching each other such as a gym or multipurpose room. A large classroom with furniture moved to the side can be used for smaller groups. 

We will work with you to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience. 

Learning Outcomes: 

• Analyse the potential for our bodies to communicate and respond to specific ideas 
• Identify movement or ideas from everyday life and transform these into dance 
• Understand and apply choreographic devices including accumulation, cannon, repetition, retrograde and contrast 
• Understand the role of creativity and experimentation in dance making 
• Understand the role of teamwork and cooperation in dance making 

Please note: Councils, Venues and Community Presenters are welcome to book through the Creative Learning Program. Contact the team at [email protected] to confirm the program fee. 

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