The Curriculum

• Dance: Contemporary African Dance, Contemporary Ballet, Street dance, Improvisation and Choreography, body conditioning
• Music: Indigenous music instrument making, drumming, singing, and Marimbas
• Arts Administration: Community project development, proposal writing, budgeting and basic financial management, performance organisation and marketing
• Production Management: Lighting, costuming, stage/performing site management
• Theory: History, heritage and legacy studies, dance literacy, safe dance practice and health care
• Foundation courses: Maths, literacy, computers
• Personal Development and Wellness: MovingArt, story-telling and creative writing
• Professional Development: attitudes, commitment, dress codes, punctuality

First Year Programme

First Year Practical Dance training includes:

• Daily dance classes including Body Conditioning and Fitness Training, Contemporary African dance, Contemporary Ballet, Improvisation and Choreography
• Weekly music training including, singing, drumming and marimba classes and instrument making
• Modules of integrated arts including Visual Arts and Drama
• Public performances to develop Performance Skills will be organised under the auspices of the two resident companies, Indoni Dance Theatre and iKapa Dance Theatre.

Theoretical aspects will include modules of:

• Dance and Music History and Theory
• Dance and Music Literacy
• Anatomy, safe use of the body and Health Care
• Life skills such as discipline, commitment, consistency and teamwork and wellness, addressing Trainees’ personal and social needs
• Arts administration; they will learn experientially when they help to organise festivals and performances
• Practice teaching; Trainees will be expected to team teach with their mentors and to contribute to community dance and arts projects.
• Professional Practices

Assessment
The final first year assessment took place in December 2015 in the form of a community festival, that was organised and publicesed by the students themselves.