GCSE Dance Skills - Practical and Exam

TECHNICAL SKILLS include:

• Good Posture
• Confidence
• Focus
• Space
• Dynamics
• Flexibility
• Balance
• Actions
• Strength
• Stamina
• Co-ordination
• Relationship
• Concentration
• Determination
• Good alignment
• Mobility

EXPRESSIVE SKILLS include:

• Focus
• Musicality
• Sense of style
• Relationships
• Projection
• Communication of choreographic intent

If you're stuck on how to improve any of your skills, why not record yourself on camera, or perform infront on friends for advice? you also gain confidence through doing so too!

PRACTICAL EXAM:

• Don't forget to warm up, stretch, drink lots of water! Take into account everything you've read on what creates a good dance!
• If you go wrong in your dance DON'T STOP its the worse thing you can do, if you can, improvise the section you've messed up, if its gone horribly wrong ask to start again. Take a few minutes to calm yourself down - don't rush straight into it.

WRITTEN EXAM:

• Sorry to state the obvious but know when your exam is! - Prepare yourself and start revising a few weeks before