Welcome to the Dance Department
Stage Three Dance
This year the dance department has delivered dance at KS3 as and art form and not within the P.E rotation. Students have been given different stimulus and created unique and exciting choreography. They have studied and developed their knowledge of dance, improved their skills needed to perform, choreographed and appreciated dance including an awareness of its artistic content. Students have developed an understanding and appreciation of a range of dance. Students have studied basic dance terminology:- space, relationships, dynamics and actions.
Topic studied at KS3
Good Studio Practice
Technical Skills
Expressive Skills
Movement Quality
Creating Choreography
Analysis and interpretation
Dance appreciation
Key Stage Four Dance
The two year course focuses on the aesthetic and artistic qualities of dance and the use of dance movement as a medium of expression and communication in the performance, creation and appreciation of dance.
Students develop knowledge, skills and understanding of creating and interpreting images, ideas, concepts embodied in dance development. The study of dance works including those of the professional repertoire, within artistic and social contexts is an essential component in the development of understanding.
This year the student have studied the set work – Bird Song choreographed by Siobhan Davies, Swansong choreographed by Christopher Bruce, The Still Life at the Penguin Café choreographed by David Bintley, Cross Channel as Post Modern work choreographed by Lea Anderson.
Students reflect on achievement, evaluate strengths and weaknesses and then make appropriate modifications for success. Knowledge and understanding of the specified content when applied within the context of selected tasks will inform this evaluation and help candidates to succeed.
This is also enhanced by the use of Information and Communication Technology. Students access video equipment in order to help analysis and evaluation of performance and choreography and to view professional repertoire.
Topics studied at KS4
Performance
Choreography
Appreciation
Good studio practice
Technical nature of dance sklls
Expressive nature of dance skills
High quality dance performance
The craft of choreography
Creating and Improving Choreogrpahy
The constituent features of the dance
Analysis and interpretation
The historical and social context of dances
The set work and details
There are three areas in which the students are assessed ie, the set study, the group performance and choreography (together with extended programme notes).
The scheme of assessment comprises of:-
A written paper 2hrs 20% of the total mark
Practical examination (set study) 20% of the total mark
Coursework, Performance and Choreography, 60% of the total mark