Dance
Aims and Vision for Curriculum
A key focus of the Dance curriculum is to develop students' interpersonal skills, passion, persistence, accountability, and collaboration. We aim to encourage creativity and freedom through exploration of movement.
This fits into the Academy’s aim to create lifelong learners and aid them with life skills for later in life. We aim to develop skills in dance performance, composition, and appreciation, though a wide range of themes, topics, and styles. A strong focus is on creativity and imagination in composition tasks, whilst performance tasks aim to develop learner’s confidence and self-esteem and a range of physical, technical, and expressive skills. Appreciation tasks encourage students to give their own insight, opinions, and interpretations, through analysing a wide range of different choreographers and their works.
Developing Our Learners
- We want learners to understand the concept of choreography and performance to inspire a love for learning.
- We want to raise cultural awareness, exposing learners to diverse cultures and traditions and to experience and perform in a range of dance styles.
- We want learners to develop an understanding of each style, analyzing the stylistic features, and historical and social factors which have influenced the development of different dance styles.
- We want learners to know how to respond to a range of different stimuli and be able to apply choreographic principles to improvise and explore, to create and structure their own dances.
- We want learners to appreciate the importance of personal interpretation and appreciation when analyzing different dance works, whether that be their own work, their peers or that of professional choreographers.
Structure And Sequence
The performance material taught in lessons gradually increases in complexity and challenge throughout the learning journey, whilst the guidance and structure of choreographic tasks is gradually reduced, allowing learners to work more independently, and with more creative freedom.
At KS4 learners take full responsibility for producing choreography in response to a choice of stimuli. The order and sequencing of the themes and topics are designed to be appropriate for particular ages/year groups.
Destinations And The World Of Work
Learners will experience working independently, in duets, trios and ensembles, enabling development of interpersonal skills which are vital in preparing them for the world of work. Creative skills developed in this subject also lend themselves to a range of different career paths.
Learners explore the roles of dance performers, choreographers, critics, teachers and therapists. Links with MEPA dance college allow students to participate in bespoke workshops, attend live performance opportunities and explore dance related courses on offer when they leave school.
We provide opportunities for all students to experience the industry to ignite a passion with the tools to follow their dreams into the next stages of their education and potential careers.
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