Creative and Performing Arts

Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)

Dance

Dance in Stage 5 is designed for students to experience, understand and value dance as an artform through the interrelated study of Performance, Composition and Appreciation.  The integration of the components is a key feature of the syllabus and the elements of dance are the components that link the study of the practices. 

The stage 5 Dance course has been developed to make Dance accessible to all students and educators while encouraging the physical, creative and intellectual development of each student. Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills about dance as an artform through: 

Dance Performance as a means of developing dance technique and performance quality to communicate ideas.

Dance Composition as a means of creating and structuring movement to express and communicate ideas.

Dance appreciation as a means of describing and analysing dance as an expression of ideas within a social, cultural or historical context.

Drama

Drama uses the collaborative approach to teaching and learning by encouraging students to explore the world through imagination and enactment. 

This artform engages students in the creative process by sharing, developing, and expressing knowledge, emotions, and ideas. Students portray aspects of human experiences by exploring the ways in which people react and respond to different situations and issues, therefore developing confidence and self-esteem.

Students who study drama in Stage 5 learn to communicate by using intellect, emotions, imagination, and whole body, in powerful and complex ways as they investigate, shape, and represent ideas, interests, attitudes, beliefs and their consequences about the world around them, and within them. 

Learning experiences are developed by workshopping, devising, making, rehearsing, and performing individual works and collaborative works of scripted and unscripted drama. In their appreciation of drama and theatre students are discover how meaning is created and achieved through the collaboration of playwrights, actors, audience, designers, technicians, and the use of sophisticated technologies.

By exploring these skills students are prepared and catered for a diverse range of experiences, participation, and inclusivity in the wider society. 

Music

Stage 5 Music is open to all students, regardless of their skill level on their chosen instrument. The course covers a range of topics and focuses on teaching you a variety of musical skills in the areas of Performance, Composition, Aural and Musicology. Having an open mind and an enthusiasm for learning are necessary qualities. In order to find out more, watch this video.

Visual Arts

In Year 9 students have 5 periods of Visual Arts per cycle.

Students will have more experiences exploring ceramics, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking design, and computer-generated Images.

 They will design images to pint on skateboards which they can they ride or display as an artwork.

Students will participate in workshops on Cockatoo Island to create artworks directly in this environment, drawing, painting and photography.

They will also continue to learn hoe to analyse and write about about art to better understand the overall artworld.

In Year 10, students continue with 5 periods per cycle and are given more independence in their artmaking.

Further experiences are provided in photo media, computer art, sculpture, painting, printmaking, ceramics and drawing and ceramics.

Excursions to exhibitions at art galleries both locally and in the city, are important to support both artmaking and historical studies, and therefore enhancing their critical and analytical writing skills.

It is really important to note that ART not only teaches creativity and imagination, highly important skills post school but the following prized attributes desired by all future employers-

Problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, risk taking, self-direction and resiliency.