Dance is an exciting subject that challenges you physically, academically and creatively. If you want to be physically active, enjoy watching live and recorded performances and want to discover more about the history and developments of dance, this is an ideal course for you. The course comprises of a broad range of practical and theory work. The practical element of the course will improve your physical and expressive skills and will equip you with the choreographic tools to craft your own creative work. The theoretical side of the course will develop your analytical skills as you study a broad range of dances from professional repertoire, interpreting and evaluating content, creative influences, and choreographic intentions. Work will be focused on two broad areas of study, within the modern dance genre, and how they have evolved over a period of time. You will have two practical lessons and two theory lessons a week. You will have contemporary technique classes to improve your technical and expressive skills, fitness, and range of movement, and will learn solo and quartet performance pieces. In choreography lessons you will explore your creativity through a range of choreographic tasks starting with solo work then progressing to group pieces. In your theory lessons you will study a range of dance works created by past and current practitioners and analyse how they have used the constituent features of dance to communicate their intentions and evaluate how they respond to or reflect issues in the world around us.