Unit 3:
This unit focuses on choreography, rehearsal and performance of a solo dance work and involves the execution of a diverse range of body actions and use of performances skills. Students also learn a group dance work created by another choreographer. The dance-making and performance processes involved in choreographing, rehearsing and performing the solo dance work, and learning, rehearsing and performing the learnt group dance work are analysed. This analysis connects each student’s own work as a choreographer to the work of professional choreographers.
Students develop their understanding of choreographic skills through an analysis of ways that the expressive intentions chosen by choreographers of twentieth and/or twenty-first century solo dance works – these are selected from the prescribed list. Students analyse the dance design and use of movement vocabulary, as well as consider influences on the choreographers’ choice of expressive intention, and production aspects of the dance works.
Unit 4:
This unit focuses on choreography, rehearsal and performance of a unified solo dance work. When rehearsing and performing this work students focus on expressive and accurate execution of choreography variations of spatial organisation and demonstration of artistry in performance. Students also document and analyse the dance-making and performance processes involved in choreography, rehearsal and performance of the solo dance work. Students’ understanding of choreographic skills is also developed and refined through an analysis of ways in which the choreographers’ intention can be expressed through the manipulation of different types of group structures. These include unison, canon, contrast, symmetrical and asymmetrical groupings and formations. Students also analyse the use of the elements of spatial organisation- direction, level, eye/body focus and dimension- in a group dance work by twentieth and/or twenty-first century choreographer. Influences on choices made by choreographers in these works are also studied.