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Exam Specifications

Below you will find a guide to a range of dance exam specifications, and how Rambert Classroom can support the teaching of these. Scroll down to your specification below, then click on the links to navigate around the site.

AQA A-Level Dance:

Performance

Safe Practice

Warming Up and Technical Accuracy:

●  Why Warm Up?

●  Sample Warm Up videos

●  Warm-Up Template


Importance of Alignment:

●  Contemporary Technique: Alignment and Posture class video excerpts


Presentation of Self:

●  Rambert Company Class videos

Lifestyle of a Dancer:

●   Dance as a Career: interviews with Rambert dancers


Performance skills:

●   Contemporary Technique: Alignment and Posture class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Transfer of Weight class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Balance class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Directions/Facings class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Rhythm/Timing class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Dynamic variation class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Phrasing/emphasis class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Pathways Through Space class video excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Using Momentum and Weight in Floorwork (full class)

●  Guided improvisations: Exploring different movement qualities

●  Guided improvisations: Sensitivity to others

●  Guided improvisations: Spatial pathways

●  Guided improvisations: Timing

●  Guided improvisations: Floorwork

●  Guided improvisations: Gesture

 

AQA A-Level Dance:

Choreography

Understanding the creative and rehearsal process

●  Choreographers’ Notebook

●  Choreographic Process interviews

 

Knowledge, Understanding and Skills of Group Choreography

Understanding Movement Components

●  Class excerpts indexed by topic

●  Guided  improvisations indexed by topic

●  Creating original movement improvisation videos

 

Manipulation of Movement Components

●   Learn Your Tools: How

●   Make it Yours: Applying Choreographic Tools

 

Structuring Movement Material

●  Learn Your Tools

●  Choreographer’s Notebook

●   Make It Yours 

●   Music playlists

 

Documenting the Choreography

●  Choreographer’s Notebook 

 

Programme Note Supports

●  Artist Statement Mindmap

●   Overview of Choreographic and Stylistic Tools

 

Aural setting

●  Playlist, including original compositions from Rambert musicians

AQA A-Level Dance

Critical Engagement

Compulsory Set Work and Area of Study

Set work: Rooster (Christopher Bruce, 1991)

●  Rooster resource pack

●  Dancing in Rooster interview, Lucy Balfour

●  Working with Christopher Bruce interview, Liam Francis

●  Rambert Works: Rooster

 

Rambert Dance Company/Ballet Rambert 1966-2002

●  Rambert history 1966-2002 documentary

●  Reflection and recall questions

●  Rambert Works, 1926-present

 

Named Practitioners

●  Rambert Works: Norman Morrice (Two Brothers, 1958)

●  Rambert Works: Glen Tetley (Ziggurat, 1967)

●  Rambert Works: Glen Tetley (Embrace Tiger Return to Mountain, 1968)

● Rambert Works: H (John Chesworth, 1968)

●  Rambert Works: Norman Morrice (That is the Show , 1971)

●  Rambert Works: Christopher Bruce (For These Who Die as Cattle.., 1972)

●  Rambert Works: John Chesworth (Pattern For An Escalator, 1972)

●  Rambert Works: Robert North (Death and the Maiden, 1980/1984)

●  Rambert Works: Robert North (Pribaoutki, 1982)

●  Rambert Works: Christopher Bruce (Sergeant Early’s Dream, 1984)

●  Rambert Works: Richard Alston (Wildlife, 1984)

●  Rambert Works: Richard Alston (Soda Lake, 1986)

●  Rambert Works: Ashley Page (Soldat, 1988)

●  Rambert Works: Siobhan Davies (Embarque, 1988)

●   Rambert Works: Siobhan Davies (Winnsboro’ Cotton Mill Blues 1992)

 

Optional Area of Study 4: The independent contemporary dance scene in Britain 2000-current

● Rambert Works: Shobana Jeyasingh (Terra Incognita, 2013)

●  Rambert Works: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Invisible Cities, 2019)

●  Rambert Works: Hofesh Shecter (In Your Rooms 2007/2019)

●  Rambert Works: Benoit Swan Pouffer (Grey Matter, 2018)

●  Rambert Works: Ohad Naharin (Kamuyot, 2019)

●  Rambert Works: Andrea Miller (Sama, 2019)

●  Rambert Works: Marion Motin, (Rouge, 2019)

●   Rambert Works: Micaela Taylor (Home, 2021)

AQA Dance GCSE

Performance

Knowledge, Understanding and Skills for Performance

●  Contemporary Technique: Posture and Alignment class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Balance class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Coordination class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Mobility and flexibility class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Strength class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Stamina class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Turning class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Jumping class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Gesture class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Transfer of weight class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Dynamic variation class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Pathways class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Levels class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Scale class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Rhythm/Timing class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Phrasing/Emphasis class excerpts

●   Contemporary Technique: Communication of Choreographic Intent class excerpts

●  Guided improvisations: Exploring different movement qualities

●  Guided improvisations: Sensitivity to others

●  Guided improvisations: Spatial pathways

●   Guided improvisations: Timing

●   Guided improvisations: Floorwork

●   Guided improvisations: Gesture

 

Mental skills and attributes

●  Dance as a Career: Interviews with Rambert dancers

●  Interview with a Rehearsal Director

 

Safe working practices

●   Why Warm Up? Interview

●   Warm-up template

●   Ten minute warm-up videos

●   Contemporary Technique: Examples of cooling down

 

AQA Dance GCSE

Dance Appreciation

Critical appreciation of own work

●  Peer feedback Model

●  Choreographer’s Notebook

 

Understanding the meaning of relevant performance terminology

●  Dance class video excerpts indexed by subject

●  Guided improvisations (encourages embodied experience of challenging terminology)


Understanding the meaning of relevant choreographic terminology

●  Choreographic Tools


Set Work: A Linha Curva

●  Rambert Works: A Linha Curva

●  A Linha Curva-inspired Contemporary Technique Class

 

Pearson BTEC in Performing Arts Level 1/Level 2

Exploring the Performing Arts

Pearson BTEC in Performing Arts Level 1/Level 2

Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts