DANCE
Offered in Option 8 as an extra subject
The subject Dance Studies encompasses dance technique, performance, choreography and dance theory. This includes health care, history and music for dance. Through Dance Studies, learners are encouraged to develop cognitive skills and entrepreneurial abilities. Dance Studies provides both individual and interactive challenges, contributing to personal maturation, social development and spiritual enrichment.
Dance Studies is constructed under the scope of choreography or composition. This is to ensure that dance techniques, theories and improvisations are ultimately directed towards the development of the learner’s own artistic ideas. In this light, creativity, technical development or self-motivated research are all considered vital elements in the learner’s experience of dance education.
Learners will be required to choose between Ballet and Contemporary dance as a major. These dance practices will be integrated with theory, and the intention is to develop well-rounded, critical, creative and thinking dance enthusiasts. This will prepare learners for further dance training, and to open up a variety of possible career pathways.
This subject also allows for many performance opportunities, including the Eastern Cape Eisteddfod, the National Arts Festival and various school productions.
Kelly Long to represent South Africa 25th January 2012
Kelly Long will represent South Africa at the 5th International Sustainable World Project Olympiad in the USA
