UK · Subject guide
Dance
A-Level Dance (AQA 7237) — the sole provider; performance and choreography alongside critical engagement with set works and areas of study.
01 · Overview
Dance
A-Level Dance (AQA 7237) — the sole provider; performance and choreography alongside critical engagement with set works and areas of study.
- Subject guide
- A-Levels
- Topics mapped
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02 · Complete topic map
Complete topic map
Every topic recorded for this subject in the curriculum is reproduced below in its full hierarchy. The descriptions reflect the mapped scope without implying additional exam rules.
- 01
Course overview, genres and terminology
The two components of performance and choreography and critical engagement, the genres of modern, ballet and jazz, and subject terminology.
- 02
Safe practice, anatomy and physiology
Alignment, technical accuracy and healthy training, and physical skills such as flexibility, strength, endurance and agility.
- 03
Performance skills framework
Physical and technical skills, spatial and dynamic elements, and interpretative skills such as projection, focus and musicality.
- 04
Solo performance in the style of a specified practitioner
A short solo in a prescribed style with an accompanying programme note.
- 05
Performance within a quartet
A quartet performance demonstrating spatial awareness and sensitivity to others, with an accompanying programme note.
- 06
Choreographic processes, devices and structures
Action, spatial and dynamic components, motif and development, variation, contrast and climax, and structures such as binary, ternary, rondo and narrative.
- 07
Group choreography and aural setting
An original group dance and its aural setting, including tempo, rhythm and call and response, with an accompanying note.
- 08
Critical appreciation and analysis skills
Analysing dance across time and location through the features of genre: style, technique, influences and practitioners.
- 09
Set work: Rooster (Christopher Bruce, 1991)
Character, subject, form, constituent features, Bruce's approach and the context of the set work.
- 10
Area of Study: Rambert Dance Company 1966-2002
Rambert's development and named practitioners such as Tetley, North, Alston, Davies and Page, and their works.
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Optional: Romantic Ballet Period / Giselle
Giselle (1841) and practitioners Taglioni, Bournonville and Saint-Leon (one of the four optional areas of study).
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Optional: Origins of American Modern Dance 1900-1945 / Appalachian Spring
Graham's Appalachian Spring (1944) and Fuller, Duncan, St Denis and Humphrey (one of the four optional areas of study).
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Optional: American Jazz Dance 1940-1975 / Singin' in the Rain
Donen and Kelly's Singin' in the Rain (1952) and de Mille, Cole, Robbins and Fosse (one of the four optional areas of study).
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Optional: Independent Contemporary Dance in Britain 2000-current / Sutra
Cherkaoui's Sutra (2008) and Jeyasingh, Bourne, Vardimon, Khan and Shechter (one of the four optional areas of study).
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Written exam technique and essay skills
The written paper: short answers and a compulsory essay on the set work, and two essays on the chosen optional area of study.
03 · Where this subject applies
Where this subject applies
These pathways and regions are explicitly connected to the subject in the curriculum.
Pathways and specifications
AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
Nations and regions
All registered regions
04 · Official sources
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