Dance Leader Award

The Award in Dance Leadership is an award for students under 16, which allows them to lead dance activities in the community. Dance Leaders help give students the chance to develop their passion for dance whilst also gaining life changing skills and experiences; such as creating and delivering dances to local Primary Schools. St Bart’s holds a fantastic relationships with local Schools and uses this as an opportunity for students to learn essential skills. Students learn to become independent through planning/organising individual and group events, teaching/coaching, presenting, working effectively as a team, developing resilience, communication and confidence.

As a Dance Leader, students will become advocates for leadership and assist to develop and encourage their peers and younger students. They will achieve this by gaining the skills necessary to coach, lead dance clubs and other extra-curricular activities to help others become more physically and actively engaged.

Dance Leadership is the perfect way to diversify your enrichment, participate in creative challenges and contribute to the community.

Requirements:

• You need to be passionate about dancing
• You must have dance experience
• You need to have shown a keen and enthusiastic approach to dance at KS3 and a good behaviour record.
• You must show commitment and dedication to extra-curricular opportunities as you will be required to support school clubs, House dance competition and lead dance sessions at local Primary schools.

Course Structure:

1. Plan, lead and review a dance activity: choreographing dances, learning how to deliver material, how to plan an event.
2. Developing leadership skills: creating/managing rehearsals, roles and responsibilities for productions, delivering extra-curricular sessions.
3. Lead activities that promote a healthy lifestyle: lead groups for an event, promoting/encouraging others.
4. The relationship of music to dance: selecting appropriate music for all opportunities, developing an understanding of impact of music for dance works.
5. Use a stimulus to create a dance piece: being a dancer for others choreographies, choreographing your own work on others, creating your own intentions to communicate to different audiences.
6. Opportunities in dance: extra-curricular events, workshops, dance clubs, House Dance, dance shows, Arts Council.

Please note class size is limited and students should think carefully about their second choice.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Hoult, Head of Dance (ahoult@stbarts.co.uk)