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A-Level Dance (AQA 7237) — the sole provider; performance and choreography alongside critical engagement with set works and areas of study.
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A-Level Dance (AQA 7237) — the sole provider; performance and choreography alongside critical engagement with set works and areas of study.
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The two components of performance and choreography and critical engagement, the genres of modern, ballet and jazz, and subject terminology.
Alignment, technical accuracy and healthy training, and physical skills such as flexibility, strength, endurance and agility.
Physical and technical skills, spatial and dynamic elements, and interpretative skills such as projection, focus and musicality.
A short solo in a prescribed style with an accompanying programme note.
A quartet performance demonstrating spatial awareness and sensitivity to others, with an accompanying programme note.
Action, spatial and dynamic components, motif and development, variation, contrast and climax, and structures such as binary, ternary, rondo and narrative.
An original group dance and its aural setting, including tempo, rhythm and call and response, with an accompanying note.
Analysing dance across time and location through the features of genre: style, technique, influences and practitioners.
Character, subject, form, constituent features, Bruce's approach and the context of the set work.
Rambert's development and named practitioners such as Tetley, North, Alston, Davies and Page, and their works.
Giselle (1841) and practitioners Taglioni, Bournonville and Saint-Leon (one of the four optional areas of study).
Graham's Appalachian Spring (1944) and Fuller, Duncan, St Denis and Humphrey (one of the four optional areas of study).
Donen and Kelly's Singin' in the Rain (1952) and de Mille, Cole, Robbins and Fosse (one of the four optional areas of study).
Cherkaoui's Sutra (2008) and Jeyasingh, Bourne, Vardimon, Khan and Shechter (one of the four optional areas of study).
The written paper: short answers and a compulsory essay on the set work, and two essays on the chosen optional area of study.
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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.
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