The Major Study in performance, composition or appreciation, and the analysis it requires.
These are the statements the Dance syllabus makes about Major Study. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
The Major Study and the written analysis of its process and outcome.
Justifying the Major Study's focus and the choices made within it.
Recording rehearsal and compositional decisions as evidence for the analysis.
Evaluating the Major Study honestly against its intention, including what did not work.
Writing program notes that analyse rather than describe.
Researching practitioners and works to inform the Major Study rather than decorate it.
HSC Dance - Written Paper Shape is 40 marks in 60 minutes. Questions on Major Study are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Dance uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Major Study is module 4 of 4 in Dance. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Dance dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.