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Dance


Dance is a subject within the Performing Arts faculty; it has good results at KS4, and within KS3 dance is now embedded. 
 
All students study Dance on a carousel system within KS3.
A BTEC dance course is offered to students studying Dance at KS4.
The Expressive Arts faculty and Dance department is well equipped, having 2 purpose built Studios one for drama and one for dance. These become a theatre used for various performances throughout the school year for audiences of over 100.
 
Dance has much to offer in terms of personal and social development, and our teaching styles cater for visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners.
 
Dance also collaborates with Drama and Music to produce an annual Christmas show and musical for example 2007 Little Shop of Horrors, 2008 High School Musical, 2009 The Sound of Music, 2010 Annie and in 2011 Bugsy Malone. 
 
At KS3 Pupils learn about:
  • Dance technique and different styles of dance, such as Contemporary, Ballroom, Street Dance, Indian and African Dance.
  • We look at and study Professional Dance works such as Matthew Bourne's Car Man and "Still life" at the Penguin Cafe by David Bintley. 
  • Understand expressive and interpretive skills in dance
  • Know how to review work and make positive comments on dances they watch
  • Begin to look at dance choreography and the process of making a dance piece
 BTEC Performing Arts First Certificate in Dance
= 2 GCSEs (3 hours a week)
 
UNIT 1 – Performing Dance (Core unit)
  • Be able to participate in practical dance workshops
  • Understand the basic physical and interpretive skills
  • Be able to demonstrate an awareness of appropriate styles and qualities in performance
  • Know how to review own progress in rehearsal and performance
UNIT 2 – The Development of Dance 
  • Understand social and historical contexts in the development of dance
  • Be able to demonstrate the components of dance
  • Be able to respond to the choreographic process
UNIT 3 – Exploring Urban Dance Styles
  • Develop your knowledge of urban dance styles
  • Explore different styles and acquire the knowledge of the basic physical and interprtative skills of these styles
Dance is a vibrant subject with many successful candidates going on to do further studies in dance after leaving Palatine
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