Year 9 Options Booklet 2013 - St Marylebone School

Why choose Dance?
Dance GCSE
GCSE Dance is the option for you if you:
• Have enjoyed Dance at KS3.
• Have a passion for dance, new ideas and innovation
• Want to improve your confidence, creativity, team
working skills and fitness level
• Like performing and enjoy experience a range of dance
styles and genres
• Like watching dances, giving your own opinion and
responding to other’s works
• Love choreographing and communicating to an audience through this art form
• Enjoy working with others and trying out new ways of moving and creating movements,
including contact work.
• Want to participate in dance performances and go on theatre visits
Course Content
UNIT 1: Critical Appreciation of Dance - you will study at
least two professional dance works both practically and
theoretically, including learning about music, set,
costume and lighting design.
UNIT 2: Set Dance - you will improve your dance
technique and movement skills, and learn and perform a
set solo dance.
UNIT 3: Performance in a Duo/ Group Dance - you will perform a group dance based on a
professional dance work. This will be choreographed by your teacher in collaboration with
you.
UNIT 4: Choreography - you will complete two
choreographic tasks:
• A solo composition based on 3 motifs
from a professional dance work.
• A solo or group choreography based on
a starting point or stimulus of your
choice.
Exam Board –AQA
Structure of Assessment
20% of the final GCSE grade
20% of the final GCSE grade
20% of the final GCSE grade
40% of the final GCSE grade
Unit 1 – final written exam
Unit 2 – practical exam – assessed externally
Unit 3 – practical exam – assessed internally
Unit 4 – practical exam – assessed internally
Solo composition (15%)
Solo or group choreography (25%)
All internally assessed practical work is marked on an exam day in the spring term. This occurs as a
performance day under exam conditions.
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