Students will be introduced to theoretical approaches to enable the analysis, interpretation, evaluation and contextualising of dance works in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The role of dance writers and critics in documenting and communicating dance will be explored. Modern and Postmodern dance innovators and their works will be studied and compared.
Students will examine issues such as gender, popular culture, and social cultural issues, both through a critical investigation of the history of dance, but also through the development of acting skills though which these, and other, ideas and issues are presented to an audience.
Through further exploration of how dancers represent these ideas through performance, they will continue to develop health and fitness tools for a career as a professional dancer.
This topic aims to develop:
Timetable details for 2021 are no longer published.