Semester 1 & 2

Dance Facilitation

• To enable students to apply the knowledge, skills and techniques gained through proceeding modules in Dance Facilitation, to a specific dance context.
• To develop processes of self-reflection in a professional context.
• To enable students to apply practical experience gained to Level P activities, and/or to a dance context on graduate employment.

• Clarify principles and strategies of facilitating dance within a specific context.
• Identify and apply key ideas and techniques that help facilitation of a project.
• Discuss the challenges that are involved in executing a dance project.
• Display the appropriate behaviour required for working in a professional context.
• Outline issues concerning ethical practice.

• Devise appropriate strategies and apply relevant methods to realise a project brief.
• Assess the efficacy of strategies considered for, or used in delivering a project brief.
• Appraise key challenges and devise appropriate methods to tackle them.
• Reflect on own practice and performance.

• Work effectively as a member of a team, giving and receiving ideas and in delivering the project.
• Evaluate own strengths and weaknesses in a professional context.
• Interact and communicate effectively and professionally with members of the public and other project personnel.
• Identify key problems and apply appropriate methods to resolve them.
• Apply appropriate theory and techniques learnt to a practical situation in a specific dance context.
• Demonstrate effective time management.
• Gather and use individual research material in the chosen specialist area.

• In consultation with each student, the tutor will arrange with appropriate bodies for a short project to be undertaken by the student, preferably within a small group.
• Examples of projects might include:
• Administering, marketing and evaluating a dance performance on campus;
• Planning, leading and evaluating a series of dance sessions for a group of older adults;
• Choreographing, producing and evaluating dance for a performance by teenagers in a youth club;
• Planning, teaching and evaluating an after-school dance club for primary or secondary school pupils.

Individual and small group tutorials, practical supervision, individual student research and students’ practical delivery of a project brief.

9 October 09