This website is designed to help you with your Higher Dance course at Larbert High School.
Your teacher will use this site to share model answers with you, and provide you with information about the structure of the course and the information you will need to know about to achieve success in the exam. Please use the tabs at the top of the page or the links below to help you navigate through all of the relevant areas of the course.
Hello and welcome to the Higher Dance website.
The course inspires and challenges candidates by giving them the opportunity to create, appreciate and perform dance. Candidates use knowledge and understanding of dance techniques and choreographic skills to inform practice, and develop skills in appreciating and evaluating dance practice and theatre arts. Candidates learn how to use dance techniques and choreography creatively to enhance performance. They experiment with a range of dance styles and learn how to apply them to enhance their own performances and the performances of others. Candidates also explore the use of theatre arts in dance.The course enables candidates to:
develop a broad range of technical dance skills
evaluate technical and performance skills in their own work and that of others
understand and apply the principles of safe dance practice
demonstrate, understand and apply knowledge of a range of choreographic principles and theatre arts to create a dance for a group
work imaginatively and demonstrate creativity through problem solving, critical thinking, analysis and reflective practice
co-operate, support and work with others
consider how theatre arts can enhance a performance
develop knowledge, understanding and appreciation of dance practice
analyse the use of theatre arts in a professional choreography
evaluate the impact of choreographic principles used in a professional dance.