Dance

Why Study Dance?

  • 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 foundation for further studies in dance or performing arts, including A-levels and BTECs,  and/or a career in performing arts