International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Dance · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Composition and choreography · Movement motifs and development
- Create and vary a movement motif with artistic intention
- Evaluate space, time, energy and relationships through recorded rehearsal
- motif
- A recurring movement idea developed in choreography.
- dynamics
- Qualities of energy and force in movement.
World dance studies · Dance investigation and cultural context
- Investigate dance in contextual and comparative ways
- Connect reliable research to embodied exploration without cultural stereotypes
- movement vocabulary
- The characteristic movement elements used in a dance form.
- cultural context
- Conditions and meanings surrounding a practice.
Performance · Rehearsal, interpretation and performance evidence
- Develop safe technical and expressive control
- Evaluate a real performance through intention and recorded evidence
- expressive intention
- The meaning or quality a performer aims to communicate.
- rehearsal
- Purposeful practice to develop and refine performance.
Preparing for this qualification
- No written examinations. SL composition/choreography 40%, dance investigation 20%, performance 40%. HL composition/choreography 35%, investigation 25%, performance 40%.
- Study dance traditions through embodied practice and research with safe supervision. Current composition, investigation and performance differ from 2029 investigating/experimenting/presenting and the new HL project.
Teaching coverage still needed
- Actual supervised compositions, comparative investigations and performance recordings plus precise guide requirements remain; future 2029 course needs separate teaching.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents
- Dance — Subject brief · 2014 ↗
First assessment: 2014
- Dance — Subject brief · 2029 ↗
First assessment: 2029
Course materials
Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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