DANCE Miss S Abaza, Head of Curriculum Dance
Why Choose Dance?
Useful Attributes
Dance GCSE offers the chance to work creatively and independently and is a challenging, exciting course. The balance between practical tasks assessed internally and final written examination gives you the best opportunity to succeed.
GCSE Dance gives you multiple skills that you can use in many other areas, such a collaborative skill, creativity, problem-solving, confidence and patience. You develop these skills through working independently and with others, creating choreography and developing your performance skills. As well as working, you also develop your analytical and interpretive skills through analysing professional dance works.
Assessment Details Exam board: AQA 8236
16
Future Directions GCSE Dance is of course a useful foundation for study of the subject at A Level, but also provides you with a range of different opportunities and gives you lots of transferable skills. There are a multitude of careers that you can pursue in dance, such as performance, teaching, arts administration, choreography, dance journalism and many more.