1. Understand the principles of stage performance and how to integrate your own dance performance skills in order to respond effectively to the role you have been cast, applying professional etiquette and working to industry standards.
2. Examine stage performances within the field of dance using concepts and theoretical frameworks and explore how they generate meaning for an audience.
3. Make creative and technical decisions in order to respond effectively to the role you have been cast, so that the finished production is presented with relevance to a contemporary audience.
4. Apply knowledge and understanding of dance disciplines for the purpose of planning, rehearsal and performance of a stage production.
5. Work Successfully within a team, effectively expressing and listening to ideas and intentions and encouraging contribution from others.

All Individually assessed

Assignment Practical [60%] No more than 1 hour 30 minutes duration for production.
• Participation in a live dance production to an audience

[Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5]

Planning and Research Journal [20%]
• Evidence of research, planning and rehearsal for a dance production

[Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 4]

Continual Assessment [20%]
• Professional standards of attendance, punctuality, warm up technique to aid injury prevention, 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 Outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5]

In this module, you will continue to develop and integrate your ability in the key disciplines of dance, whilst also recognising its relationship to other performance disciplines and notably within the context of performing arts.

Appreciation of an audience, suitability of performance to set venues, awareness of context including trends, expectations and audience preferences are all higher-level skills that require knowledge and understanding of the medium dance.

Negotiating within a team you will collaboratively plan for an original creative response to the task of producing a dance production, typically to a given theme.

This may be for example, dance performance, cabaret, variety or musical theatre performance. You will explore a variety of shows, considering content and format, and their relevance to specific audiences and consider what makes a production successful. You will audition and be part of the casting process and will develop an individual response in accordance with the nature of your role. You will participate in rehearsal and group critique, experimenting with ideas and concepts to ultimately produce a creative and original outcome that contributes effectively to the dance production. This will be performed in front of an audience in a professional setting. It will be necessary to carry out a substantial amount of work in your own time, and you may draw upon a wide range of sources in order to bring the dance material to life during workshops, rehearsals and eventual performance.

Your ability to work in a conscientious, supportive, committed manner - embracing etiquette, professional regimes including warm up, dedication, focus, research and ability to take direction and advice - will all be considered at assessment, together with an ability to faithfully reproduce for the stage the performance role that has been created, explored and delivered in the rehearsal process.

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 through a dance performance 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, whether this is 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
¿ Auditions and castings
¿ Health and safety
¿ Rehearsals
¿ Performance
¿ Reflective practice
¿ Peer formative assessment and reflectio
¿ 1:1 tutorials and progress review

Berkson, R. (1990) Musical Theater Choreography: A Practical Method for Preparing and Staging Dance in a Musical Show: Back Stage Books
Brehm, M (2015) Creative Dance and Learning- Making the Kinesthetic Link: McGraw Hill
Bremser, M. (2011) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers: Routledge
Duerden, R. & Fisher, N. (2008) Dancing Off the Page: Integrating Performance, Choreography Analysis and Notation/Documentation
Franklin, E. (2004) Conditioning for Dance: Human Kinetics
Gilbert, A (2015) Creative Dance for All Ages 2nd Edition: Human Kinetics

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