Dance

Choosing this Course

This course is designed to provide students with the skills, knowledge and experience to succeed in a career in dance, through both practical training in technique and choreography as well as through studying professional dance artists and their work. You will be required to attend theatre trips and conduct your own personal research into professional choreographers and their works.

 

Course Content

YEAR 1

Component 1: Performance and choreography:

• Pupils choreograph and perform a solo linked to a specific practitioner.
• Pupils will begin to learn a quartet demonstrating excellent performance skills.
• Pupils will also start to explore choreographic skills in creating a duo/trio, building on prior knowledge and extending their understanding of choreography.

Component 2: Critical engagement

Pupils articulate their understanding of one of the two areas of study (including analyses of key practitioners and professional works) and demonstrate a contextual understanding of Genre and Style through Dance History.

YEAR 2

Component 1: Performance and choreography

• Pupils refine and perform highly technical solos linked to a specific practitioner.
• Pupils refine and perform the highly technical quartet.
• Pupils will choreograph a group performance for 3–5 dancers based on a selected AQA question.

Component 2: Critical engagement

Pupils articulate their understanding of the second area of study (including analysis of key practitioners and professional works) and demonstrate a contextual understanding of its place in Dance History. The written examination entails both short answer questions and 3 essays on the compulsory and selected set work within the area of study.

 

Career Opportunities

Students can continue their studies at degree level at university or a specialised vocational school. Alternatively, it can lead to a career in the following: Teaching, Performing, Arts Administrator, Choreographer, among many more.