 AQA GCSE Dance.
Author: Clunie, Maggie & Liz Dale, Lyn Paine Published: 2009 GCSE Dance enables students to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of performance, safe dance practice, choreography and critical appreciation. Offering a highly visual approach, these resources reflect a course that is practical, flexible and based on teamwork. This book features: plenty of practical activities allowing students to develop and practice choreographic elements; differentiated activities to encourage group, paired and individual work; a wealth of up-to-date material focused on the prescribed professional works, to ensure students are able to approach both the written paper and the Controlled Assessment with confidence. The chapters are: 1. Introducing GCSE Dance, 2. Dance styles, 3. Safe dance practice, 4. The ingredients of dance, 5. Creating dances, 6. Performing dances, 7. Aspects of production, 8. Preparing for assessment, 9. Professional works fact file. The latter has details about the prescribed works: Bird Song, Faultline, Ghost Dances, Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!, Overdrive, Perfect, Romeo and Juliet, Rosas Danst Rosas, 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café, and Swansong. (Prospective users should note, however, that Ghost Dances is not currently available either as a DVD or video. |
