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Option Subject – BTEC Technical Award Performing Arts (Dance and

Drama)

Course Overview

Component 1 – Exploring the Performing Arts

You will study three professional pieces of Dance, Drama or Musical Theatre. You will
practice, perform, take part in workshops and technique classes, and you will learn about
the roles and responsibilities in the Performing Arts industry. This component is assessed
through video footage of classes, workshops and performances, and through a written
diary and coursework portfolio.

Component 2 – Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts

In this component, students study one professional Dance, Drama or Musical Theatre
performance. Students are expected to replicate this performance and to perform it to
camera for assessment. Students are also assessed on their ability to show progress over
time when learning skills and techniques, with a logbook detailing what they have
learned, how they have progressed and how they have evaluated their progress and set
targets. Students also complete a coursework portfolio that engages in evaluations of
their progress and performance throughout the learning journey.

Component 3 – Responding to a brief

This component is externally assessed. Students are sent an exam paper in January with a
brief from the exam board. They have until May to explore the brief, plan their
performance and create a response to the stimulus.

Students must document their planning, progress and final performance, as well as
engaging in evaluating how their learning journey developed and how well it responded
to the set brief. There is no written exam. Students engage in creating a learning portfolio
which they are allowed to take into a set of three controlled assessments, where they
document three major milestones of the journey by writing 800 words at each assessment
point.

This course can guide many students in careers such as: Performer, Choreographer,
Director, Stage Assistant, Costume Designer, Lighting Designer, Make up artist, Props
designer, Theatre assistant, Performing Arts Promotion, Teacher, Coach, Multiple industry
roles.

Specification: BTEC Technical Award Performing Arts Level 2.

Final exam: A synoptic assessment which is internally developed and externally marked.

Course Code: 603/0406/6.