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.
Dance News 2012:
Ballet tour to Cape Town:
5 dancers; Jemma, Michaela, Akhona, Celine and Hannah went to Cape Town at the end of term one to take part in a Tchaikovsky workshop held at the UCT School of Dance. The workshop was conducted by the teachers and dancers of the Cape Town City Ballet. Every day the girls had an open ballet class where they were challenged with new combinations of exercises, they also had to start remembering set exercises that would be performed at the end of the week.The highlight of the week was definitely learning set repertoire from the Tchaikovsky ballets, learning and performing sequences from Swan Lake and the Nutcracker are without a doubt every ballet dancers dream. The girls really gave their all in class and rehearsals and the week ended with a beautiful performance on the Artscape stage. This was an incredibly rich and rewarding experience and the girls are to be commended on their impeccable behaviour.
3 May 2012: The following girls were awarded dance team badges:
Alice Haddon
Alex McLaren
Eden Repapis
Akhona Mnqandi
Celine Leach
Michaela Oxley
Emma Dreyer
Kelly Long represents South Africa 10th May 2012
Kelly Long represented South Africa at the 5th International Sustainable World Project Olympiad in the USA
