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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. Dance appreciation is assessed through a written exam of one and a half hours duration.
Please refer to below for more information about the structure of the written exam.
Critical appreciation of own work:
To critically appreciate their own performance and choreography, through describing, analysing, interpreting, evaluating and reflecting, students must know and understand:
Critical Appreciation of professional set works:
The GCSE Dance Anthology provides the focus for learning how to critically appreciate professional set works.
Students must study all six works in their entirety and be prepared to describe, analyse, interpret, evaluate and reflect on the works in response to short answer and extended writing questions. The GCSE Dance Anthology, with details of all six professional works, including films of each performance and interviews with the choreographer or company associate
Students must know and understand the defining characteristics of each set professional work, including:
To critically appreciate professional works through describing, analysing, interpreting, evaluating and reflecting, students must know and understand:
• the similarities and differences between the defining characteristics of each dance (as above)
• the contribution of choreography (as above), performance and features of production to the audience's understanding of the work
• the relationships between choreography, performance and features of production (as above) and the ways in which these have been used together to enhance audience understanding of the choreographic intention
• the purpose or significance of different performance environments in which the dance was created and performed.
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