Key Staff
Head of Drama: Ms L Phillips
Dance Lead: Miss J Ricketts
Course Information
Drama at Cambourne is about developing the pupils as individuals through unlocking their use of imagination, intellect, empathy and courage.
The purpose of the Dance curriculum is to create the opportunity for students to engage in different dance styles, techniques, choreography, and to provide the essential skills and understanding to be creative to be able to express themselves.
KS4 Drama – What will I learn?
1. Devising Theatre: Students work in groups of between two and five to devise a piece of original theatre for performance, record their research, and evaluate the final outcome. Pupils choose a stimulus from a list supplied by the exam board (a quotation, a song or a picture) from which they devise a piece of theatre, demonstrating either the techniques of a theatre practitioner or the dramatic characteristics of a genre. Students also produce a portfolio of evidence which demonstrates their research, creation and development of ideas.
2. Performing from a Text: Pupils work in groups of between two and four actors and study two 10 minute extracts, within the context of the whole text, from one performance text of their own choice. The extracts studied are key extracts from the text selected. These are then performed to an external examiner.
3. Interpreting Theatre: Learners study ‘The IT’ by Vivienne Franzmann, approaching the text practically as an actor, designer and director. They must consider how the text is constructed and how to create meaning through genre, structure, character, form and style, language/dialogue and stage directions. They are to think about the relationships on stage, the impact of different stages, relationships between performer and audience, the design of lighting, sound, set, props, costume and make-up, and the actor’s vocal and
BTEC Dance – What will I learn?
1. You will look at elements such as roles, responsibilities and the application of relevant skills and techniques. You will broaden your knowledge through observing existing repertoire and by learning about the approaches of cho-reographers, and how they create and influence performance material.
2. You will learn an existing piece of repertoire, applying relevant skills and techniques to reproduce the performance piece. You will develop technical, practical and interpretative skills through the rehearsal and performance process.
3. You will be given the opportunity to work as part of a group to contribute to a workshop performance in response to a given brief and stimulus.
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