ABSTRACT
Dance is an embodied literacy that involves cognitive, aesthetic and physical activity (Jones, 2014). In dance, students use their bodies to express meaning in a range of contexts. Dance requires students to understand and express literacies through gesture and in combination with other modes such as space, sound and image. Students are also often expected to read and write about dance through language mode and sometimes image. This chapter, therefore, shares information about how dance is represented in curriculum as well as the literacies associated with dance. Examples of classroom practice in dance are also shared and these are related to the model of arts-literacies outlined in Chapter 4.
