Dance A Level (Block C)

Applications Open - 13th October 2025

Applications Close - Not applicable

Entry Requirements - 5 x 4-9 grades, including English and maths. Individual course criteria apply

How to Apply -

External Students Please apply via KentChoices. Please note - after sending your application, you'll receive a welcome email from Applicaa asking for further information. https://www.kentprospectus.co.uk/login.

Internal students - apply via Applicaa - you will receive an email from Applicaa on 27th November, or use the link here - https://abbey.applicaa.com/

Contact ncrouch@abbeyschoolfaversham.co.uk with any questions

A-level Dance is a dynamic qualification which encourages students to develop their creative and intellectual capacity, alongside transferable skills such as team working, communication and problem solving. All of these are sought after skills by higher education and employers and will help them stand out in the workplace whatever their choice of career. The A-level Dance specification requires students to develop, demonstrate and articulate practical and theoretical knowledge, understanding and experience of:

• technical and performance skills

• the process and art of choreography

• the interrelationship between the creation, presentation and viewing/appreciation of dance works

• the development of dance placed within an artistic and cultural context

• professional dance works and the significance of these works

• subject specific terminology and its use. Knowledge, understanding and skills will be developed and demonstrated within performance, choreography and critical engagement with the study of professional repertoire located within specific areas of study.

The study of professional dance works, within the areas of study, promotes the integration of theory and practice and underpins students’ own approaches to performance and choreography. Areas of study provide students with the opportunity to investigate the key changes in the development of dance linked to a genre(s) and allow students to demonstrate contextual understanding through written communication and performance

Assessments Students must complete both assessment components.

Component 1: Performance and choreography:

Solo performance linked to a specified practitioner within an area of study

Performance in a quartet

Group choreography

Component 2: Critical engagement

Knowledge, understanding and critical appreciation of two set works

One compulsory set work within the compulsory area of study

One optional set work within the corresponding area of study, from a choice of four.

Practical exam = 80 marks = 50% of A-level

Written exam: 2 hours 30 minutes = 100 marks = 50% of A-level

• Section A: short answer questions (25 marks) and one essay question (25 marks) on the compulsory set work/area of study.

• Section B: two essay questions on the second set work/area of study (25 marks for each essay)

Students must achieve a 5 in GCSE Dance and English.

If students have not taken GCSE Dance as a subject they must have experience in Dance outside of school.