Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Diploma – Production Arts
The Dance Programme
What’s it about?
During the BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing Arts, dance students will have the opportunity to develop their knowledge and acquire the technical skills in a variety of dance genres, including jazz, contemporary, ballet, street and tap.
There are many performance opportunities throughout the course, enabling students to build self-confidence when performing to live audiences and gain a sense of achievement through the medium of dance. We also wish to develop in all of our students an awareness of one’s body and their surrounding space, co-ordination, strength, flexibility and fitness, grace, musicality and freedom of expression as well as the foundations of strong technical training. Throughout their time studying Level 3 BTEC Dance at CPA, students learn physical and cognitive skills as well as developing emotionally and socially.
They will also:
- Build confidence and a positive self-esteem that will last throughout life by developing feelings of inclusion, purpose and achievement
- Increase attention span, develop listening skills and improve the ability to follow instructions
- Develop self-discipline, persistence, resourcefulness, flexibility of mind, the ability to self-motivate and the ability to think quickly under pressure
- Develop observational and perceptual skills
- Improve partner and group work skills – both leading and being part of a cohesive group
- Improve posture, strength, flexibility, joint mobility and fitness
- Improve balance, co-ordination and awareness of how and where the body is placed in space
- Develop spatial cognition and spatial perception
Entry Requirements:
We would recommend a grade 5 at GCSE in English and dance experience. This may include GCSE Dance or regular dance technique classes in any style.
There will also be an audition of a one minute solo in any style.
Contacts:
Mrs. S. Watson – Director of Teaching and Learning
The Canterbury Academy Sixth Form
Course Content:
This is a thirteen unit course (equivalent to three A Levels) covering skills and techniques in a variety of styles of dance.
Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma in Performing Arts (Dance)
First year units – developing skills and techniques in dance, ballet, contemporary, performing arts in the community, group performance workshop, and investigation of a practitioner’s work.
Second year units – jazz technique, tap technique, street technique, individual performance commission, employment opportunities in the performing arts, movement in performance and final live performance.
The assessments are 70% practical, delivered through filmed workshops, rehearsals and performances. A final 30% of assessment will come in the form of presentations of research, evaluations and log books.
Progression:
Vocation
Develop performance skills, take part in theatre productions and learn about the industry that could result in a career in leisure entertainment. Students will develop an awareness of the independent nature of this industry including the skills required to be self–employed as a dancer.
Academic
A place in a dance school or university course in performing arts. Degrees in dance and dance education are the most natural next step academically. We recommend that students also take the A Level in Dance in order to fully prepare them for further educational training.