Why choose GCSE Dance?
In addition to helping students acquire subject knowledge, this specification: • promotes fitness, a healthy lifestyle, team working and creativity • actively engages students in the process of dance in order to develop as effective and independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds • develops students’ skills, knowledge and understanding of a range of dance styles through the interrelated processes of performing, creating and appreciating dances • develops physical, technical and expressive skills through which students are able to communicate choreographic intention and develop their individual qualities as performers • develops students’ skills, knowledge and understanding of choreography through which they are able to communicate ideas, thoughts and meaning drawn from a range of dance styles • develops a critical appreciation of dance in its physical, artistic, aesthetic and cultural contexts • provides progression from Key Stage 3 and a solid fou
