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IB Dance SL and HL

19 lessons at SL. 20 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons and practice questions on every assessment task.

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Units
5
SL lessons
19
HL lessons
20
Questions
84
Key terms
65

What you will study

Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.

The elements of dance and the dancer4 lessons · free
  1. Elements of danceBody, action, space, time, energy
  2. DynamicsLaban’s effort factors
  3. RelationshipsDancers in relationship
  4. The dancer’s bodyTechnique and safe dance practice
Choreography: from stimulus to structure4 lessons
  1. Starting a danceStimulus and choreographic intention
  2. Motif developmentMotifs and choreographic devices
  3. StructureChoreographic structures
  4. Production elementsSound, design and dance for camera
Dance forms and their contexts5 lessons
  1. Dance in contextWhy people dance
  2. BalletBallet from court to neoclassicism
  3. Modern and contemporary danceModern and contemporary dance
  4. Asian dance formsBharatanatyam, Kathak and butoh
  5. Dance forms in communityFlamenco, West African dance and hip hop
Analysing and writing about dance3 lessons
  1. AnalysisDescribe, analyse, interpret, evaluate
  2. ComparisonComparing two dance forms
  3. Recording danceNotation, video and sources
Assessment tasks3 SL · 4 HL lessons
  1. AssessmentThe course and composition and analysis
  2. AssessmentThe dance investigation
  3. AssessmentPerformance
  4. HL assessmentDance at HLHL

Try a question

From “Body, action, space, time, energy”.

Questions are in English. Every answer comes with an explanation.

In dance analysis, what is the kinesphere?

  1. AThe whole stage area
  2. BThe path a dancer traces on the floor
  3. CThe highest point of a jump
  4. DThe space a dancer can reach without travelling
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D. The space a dancer can reach without travelling

The kinesphere is the personal sphere of space around the body; general space is the shared stage.

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