Assessment

Standard Level

Internal Assessment

Performance Dance(s) performed by the student and short programme notes

• A: Impact

• B: Technical skills

• C: Interpretative ability

• D: Programme note

External Assessment

Composition and analysis: Dance works composed by the student and an analytical statement which documents and reflects upon the processes of composition and analysis of one of the dances

• A: Overall impression

• B: Craft

• C: Analytical statement

Dance investigation: A formal written report analysing the similarities and differences between two dance styles

• A: Historical context

• B: Current context

• C: Dance elements

• D: Sources

• E: Organization

Higher Level

Internal Assessment

Performance Dance(s) performed by the student and short programme notes

• A: Impact

• B: Technical skills

• C: Interpretative ability

• D: Programme notes

External Assessment

Composition and analysis: Dance works composed by the student and an analytical statement which documents and reflects upon the processes of composition and analysis of one of the dances

• A: Overall impression

• B: Craft

• C: Compositional contrast

• D: Analytical statement

• E: Connections

Dance investigation: A formal written report analysing the similarities and differences between two dance styles

• A Historical context

• B Current context

• C Dance elements

• D Sources

• E Organization

• F Comparative discussion of short excerpts