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Technique and performance skills

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What technical and performance skills does a Higher dancer apply, and how does each one make a performance more accurate and more expressive across two contrasting styles?

The technical skills (alignment and posture, balance, control, coordination, mobility and flexibility, strength, stamina, extension, transfer of weight, gesture, technical accuracy) and performance skills (timing and musicality, dynamics, spatial awareness, projection and focus, communication of choreographic intention, sense of style) assessed in Higher Dance, and how each supports an accurate and expressive performance in contrasting styles.
An SQA Higher Dance answer on the technical skills (alignment, balance, control, coordination, flexibility, strength, stamina, extension, transfer of weight, accuracy) and performance skills (timing, dynamics, spatial awareness, projection, communication, sense of style), and how each makes a performance accurate and expressive in two contrasting styles.
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How is the Higher Dance performance assessed, and how do the two contrasting solos reward technical and performance skills?

The Higher Dance performance component: two tutor-choreographed technical solos in contrasting dance styles, each lasting between one and a half and two minutes, assessed on the candidate's application and combination of technical and performance skills appropriate to each style.
An overview of the SQA Higher Dance performance component: two tutor-choreographed solos in contrasting styles, each roughly one and a half to two minutes, assessed on the application and combination of technical and performance skills, and how to prepare and write about it.
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