GCSE Dance Knowledge, understanding and skills for performance

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  • GCSE Dance
    • Knowledge, understanding and skills for performance // Performance Skills
      • Physical skills and attributes
        • posture
        • alignment
        • balance
        • co-ordination
        • control
        • flexibility
        • mobility
        • strength
        • stamina
        • extension
        • isolation
      • Technical skills
        • action content (eg travel, turn, elevation, gesture, stillness, use of different body parts, floor work, transfer of weight)
        • dynamic content (eg fast/slow, sudden/ sustained, acceleration/deceleration, strong/light, direct/indirect, flowing and abrupt) 
        • spatial content (eg pathways, levels, directions, size of movement, patterns, spatial design) 
        • relationship content - for duet/trio performance only (eg lead and follow, mirroring, action and reaction, accumulation, complement and contrast, counterpoint, contact, formations) 
        • timing content
        • rhythmic content
        • movement in a stylistically accurate way
      • Expressive skills
        • projection
        • focus
        • spatial awareness
        • facial expression
        • phrasing
        • for duet/trio performance only:
          • musicality
          • sensitivity to other dancers
          •  communication of choreographic intent, including mood(s), meaning(s), idea(s), theme(s) and/or style/style fusion(s).
      • Mental skills (during performance)
        • movement memory
        • commitment
        • concentration
        • confidence
      • Mental skills (during the process)
        • systematic repetition
        • mental rehearsal
        • rehearsal discipline
        • planning of rehearsal
        • response to feedback
        • capacity to improve.
      • Safe working practices (during performance)
        • safe execution
        • appropriate dancewear, including: footwear hairstyle absence of jewellery.
      • Safe working practices (during the process)
        • warming up
        • cooling down
        • nutrition
        • hydration

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