Component 1a: Performance
Students will develop and apply the knowledge, understanding and skills required to perform dance, as a
soloist and in a duet/trio. The knowledge and understanding of physical skills, including: flexibility, strength,
cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, agility, neuromuscular coordination and kinaesthetic
awareness, underpin and inform the development of both the physical/technical and interpretative/performance skills.


Component 1b: Choreography
Students will learn how to create an original piece of group choreography in response to an externally set
task. To translate their dance ideas into choreography, students will develop and apply practical knowledge
and understanding of choreographic processes, including researching, developing and experimenting with
dance ideas through studio and non-studio investigation.


Component 2: Critical appreciation The set works and areas of study provide an appropriate focus for students to critically engage with dance
and understand the interrelationship between the creation, presentation and viewing/appreciation of dance.
Critical engagement with areas of study must enable students to develop and demonstrate an in-depth
knowledge and understanding of dance through time and location relating to features of genre, including:
 style
 influences
 key practitioners
 professional repertoire
 communication of dance ideas.