Augment Education
  • Blog
Log inStart free
augment

Augment Education

IB Diploma revision built around the syllabus.

contact@augment-education.com

Product

  • Features
  • Question bank
  • Quick fire
  • Worksheets
  • Flashcards
  • Notes
  • Subjects
  • What's new

Learn

  • IB guide
  • Booklets, explained
  • Blog
  • Free tools
  • Grade calculator
  • Subject checker

Company

  • About
  • Help
  • For parents
  • For teachers
  • Student stories
  • Comparisons

Augment Education is developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed by it. “IB” and “International Baccalaureate” are its trademarks.

© 2026 Augment Education. All rights reserved.

PrivacyTerms
  1. Subjects
  2. Dance

IB Dance

Making, performing and analysing dance from more than one culture or tradition, as a choreographer, performer and investigator.

  • Group 6, the arts
  • SL and HL
  • First assessment 2013

What Augment has for Dance

For Dance, Augment has the syllabus and how the subject is assessed. There are no questions, notes or flashcards for it yet.

Both are below, and they come straight from the subject guide, so they are worth reading before you choose your subjects.

Counted on 20 October 2026

The Dance syllabus

3 topics and 16 subtopics, first assessment 2013. HL is everything here; 3 parts marked HL only are left out at SL.

  1. 1Composition and analysis

    1. 1.1Composing original work
    2. 1.2Structuring dances to express an intention
    3. 1.3Form, content and function
    4. 1.4Writing an analytical statement
    5. 1.5Contrasting compositionsHL only
    6. 1.6Connections across dance learningHL only
  2. 2World dance studies

    1. 2.1Exploring dances physically and theoretically
    2. 2.2Familiar and unfamiliar dance cultures and traditions
    3. 2.3Historical, social and cultural contexts
    4. 2.4Dance elements, similarities and differences
    5. 2.5Individual investigation
    6. 2.6Comparing two short excerptsHL only
  3. 3Performance

    1. 3.1Movement skills appropriate to the dancer’s performance
    2. 3.2Clarity in space, time, dynamics and movement qualities
    3. 3.3Communicative expression with other performers and the audience
    4. 3.4Programme notes

How Dance is assessed

From the subject guide, with a table for each level.

Standard Level

2 exams, internal assessment 40% of the grade.

ComponentTimeMarksWeight
Composition and analysis

– · 20 marks

Two dances you compose, 6–10 minutes in total, submitted as video, plus an analytical statement of up to 800 words on one of them.

–2040%
Dance investigation

– · 20 marks

A written report of up to 1,500 words comparing two dance styles from different cultures or traditions, one familiar to you and one unfamiliar.

–2020%
PerformanceInternal

Coursework · 22 marks

One or two dances (at least one solo or duet), 3–6 minutes in total, performed at an open showing and filmed, with short programme notes.

Coursework2240%

Higher Level

2 exams, internal assessment 40% of the grade.

ComponentTimeMarksWeight
Composition and analysis

– · 30 marks

Three dances you compose, 8–15 minutes in total, submitted as video, plus an analytical statement of up to 1,000 words that also evaluates the connections you made.

–3035%
Dance investigation

– · 25 marks

A written report of up to 2,500 words comparing two dance styles from different cultures or traditions, including an in-depth comparison of a short excerpt from each.

–2525%
PerformanceInternal

Coursework · 22 marks

Two or three dances (at least one solo or duet), 6–9 minutes in total with at least half solo or duet, performed at an open showing and filmed, with short programme notes.

Coursework2240%
Every paper, the IA and grade boundaries

Questions about Dance

Useful for Dance

  • Assessment and boundariesEach Dance paper in full, the internal assessment and grade boundaries by session.
  • Grade calculatorTurn marks into a grade, or six grades and the core into Diploma points.

Keep Dance beside your other subjects

A free account keeps your six subjects and levels in one place.

Start freeOpen Dance in Augment