1. Performance

Students must develop and apply the following knowledge, understanding and skills to perform dance as a soloist: physical skills and attributes; technical skills; expressive skills, mental skills and attributes during performance and process and safe working practices.

2. Choreography

Students will learn how to respond creatively to an externally set stimulus, to choreograph their own complete dance. To be able to create their own dance, students will need to know, understand and be able to apply the following skills: action content; dynamic content; spatial content; relationship content; choreographic processes; structuring devices and form; choreographic devices; aural setting, performance environments and communication of choreographic intent.

3. Dance Appreciation

Through written communication and use of appropriate terminology, students must be able to critically analyse, interpret and evaluate their own work in performance and choreography and demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of professional practice in the six set works in the GCSE Dance Anthology. 

Component 1 (60%) 

• • • Performance (30%)

      • • • Set phrases through a solo performance (approximately one minute in duration). 

          • Duet/trio performance (minutes in a dance which is a maximum of five minutes in duration).

    • Choreography (30%)

• Solo or group choreography – a solo (two to two and a half minutes) or a group dance for two to five dancers (three to three and a half minutes). 

Component 2 (60%): Dance Appreciation

• Knowledge and understanding of choreographic processes and performing skills.

• Critical appreciation of own work (performance & choreography).

• ​Critical appreciation of 6 professional works. 

The practical component of the course enables students to study dance by ‘doing’ and the anthology of professional works will provide a springboard for the development of creative and engaging practical tasks. The study of the anthology will facilitate the development of students’ skills in performance and choreography as well as broadening their knowledge and understanding of dance and ability to critically appraise dances of different styles and cultural influences. 

For further information, please contact Ms Jayne Cunliffe (jayne.cunliffe@wis.edu.hk), Teacher of Dance.