1. Understand the limits of your ability, and access opportunities to develop dance skills across a variety of performance pieces when working with different camera setups.
2. Experiment with styles and approaches when performing dance to camera in order to advance practical skills and be able to overcome technical challenges associated with different camera setups.
3. Recognise individuals’ skills and work effectively with cast and crew members, respecting other people’s points of view and different approaches to working, in order to deliver a product for a specific purpose.
4. Assess own strengths and limitations making sound decisions with regard to where to improve, in order to maximise positive impact on practical work.

Assessment 1- Performance (80%) No more than 10 minutes total
The presentation of negotiated dance pieces to camera (minimum of 2), demonstrating versatility across a range of dance forms and an ability to tailor performance for media capture.

Professional standards of attendance, punctuality, openness of approach, contribution to discussions, reflective conversations will be assessed, alongside students taking agency in the application of knowledge and the contribution to creative ideas and application of research to the rehearsal and workshop sessions.

[Learning outcome 1, 2, 3]

Assessment 2 – Reflective Journal (20%)
Well-documented reflection on your journey through the process, including evaluative and persuasive arguments for the approaches you have taken to develop your skills along with research to support your decision making.

[Learning outcome 1, 4]

This level 5 module which adopts a structured dance training approach, is designed to develop your confidence, ability and stamina to respond to the challenges of dancing in a professional capacity. It builds on the learning that took place throughout level 4, particularly through the modules of ‘Skills for the Professional Dance Practitioner’ and ‘Dance Styles and Technique’. It will extend your training in dance beyond the traditional disciplines and requires you to integrate and refine your techniques in order to reproduce contrasting work for specific commercial outcomes.
You will be expected to demonstrate increasing alignment, control, flexibility, strength and musicality and your continued engagement in physical exercise and rehearsal will be evident in your levels of energy and confidence as you present your work.

Additionally, this module will introduce you to the wide range of applications for dance in recorded media such as music videos and for promotional purposes. Therefore, you will explore the varied creative and technical requirements of performing to camera, (single or multi-camera), comparing and contrasting the demands of working within this field with those of live performance. You will experiment, individually and with others, in the art of performing to camera, and develop an understanding of the collaborative involvement of choreographer, composer, cinematographer, editor and director.

In your screen performances you will seek to demonstrate skills within the technical medium in relation to placement, shot-sizes, movement and expression, and holistically present your piece in a manner suited to its original intentions.

Weekly workshops and screenings will allow you to receive feedback from peers and lecturers that will support your development within this advanced level of dance training and also your screen dance study, strengthening your ability to combine existing disciplines, develop new disciplines and broaden your repertoire as a dancer in order to increase your employment potential.

You will be required to reproduce contrasting work to a professional standard through rehearsals and performance to camera, working with cast and crew in a coherent and supportive manner, reflective of industry practice and resulting in a compilation of recorded dance pieces.

Strategies in this module are active and practically focussed and will require a mix of individual and collaborative learning, both in and out of timetabled sessions.

Activities will allow you to apply your existing theoretical knowledge, and creative and technical skills and combine with new skills of working in a filmed, technical medium, thus allowing you to make sense of your prior learning in a professional work-related context. You will continue to learn from others by exploring existing work and by making connections with the tasks you have been set.

These tasks will challenge you to combine and refine your abilities through practise, discovery and problem solving. The assignment will require you to engage in independent learning through research into the performance as a whole and the style that you are portraying, whether this be from primary and/or secondary sources and there will be an expectation throughout this module that you approach this requirement proactively in order that your progress is not hindered.

Learning will be facilitated through the following:
¿ Structured dance training sessions
¿ Skills workshops
¿ Screen workshops
¿ Auditions and castings
¿ Health and safety
¿ Rehearsals with and without cameras
¿ Performance
¿ Reflective practice
¿ Peer formative assessment and reflection
¿ 1:1 tutorials and progress review

Arendell. T.D. & Barnes, R. (2016) Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Palgrave Macmillan
Blom, L. A & Tarin Chaplin, L. (2010) The Intimate Act of Choreography: Dance Books Ltd
Bremser, M. (2011) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers: Routledge
Burrows, J. (2010) A Choreographer’s Handbook: Routledge
Franklin, E. (2004) Conditioning for Dance: Human Kinetics
Mitoma, J. (2003) Envisioning Dance on Film and Video: Dance for the Camera. Routledge
Porter, J (2010) Dance with Camera: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Smith-Autard, J.M. (2010) Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making. Methuen Drama

Dance Studio
Camera / lighting equipment
IPads
Sound System / Playback
Internet and IT Acces
Assorted Costumes / Props