1. GCSE DANCE – SECTION A REVISION Today’s lesson: Revise the following;
Good Studio Practice
Technical Nature of Dance Skills
Expressive Nature of Dance Skills
Factors Influencing High Quality Dance Performance
The Craft of Choreography
Characteristics of the Set Study

2. TASK 1:
Complete the grids with the correct answers

3. GOOD STUDIO PRACTICE Diet and Nutrition Warming up and cooling down
Safe practice
Health and safety
Avoidance and care of injury
TASK 2 – In groups create a revision aid for one of these topics (10 mins)

4. GOOD STUDIO PRACTICE EXAM STYLE QUESTIONS:
How can a warm-up at the start of a dance class be effective? Explain your answer. (6 marks)
As a student of dance what do you need to do in order to improve your dance performance? (6 marks)
State three ways of avoiding injury when preparing to dance. (3 marks)
A dancer has landed badly from an elevation and sustained an injury to an ankle. Give three examples of what he/she should do to an aid a speedy recovery. (3 marks)

5. TECHNICAL NATURE OF DANCE SKILLS
ACTION
SPACE
DYNAMICS
RELATIONSHIPS
BASIC PRINCIPLES
TASK 3 – List the ways in which a motif can be developed under the titles action, space, dynamics, relationships

6. BASIC PRINCIPLES Posture Alignment Coordination Balance Strength
Flexibility
Control and Mobility

7. EXPRESSIVE NATURE OF DANCE SKILLS
Focus
Projection
Style
Musicality
Communication of choreographic intent

8. FACTORS INFLUENCING HIGH QUALITY DANCE PERFORMANCE
TASK 4 - How can you achieve high quality dance performance? List as many ways that you can think of.
Planning of appropriate rehearsal schedule
Commitment by all to rehearsal
Identification of technical and expressive skills
Rehearsal of the above
Identification of strengths and weaknesses
Use of video
Systematic repetition
Presentation to an audience

9. Choreography – Exam style Questions
Why is it important to consider the use of climax in a dance? (4 marks)
You are given the task of creating a travelling phrase across the room. How can you build a climax into the phrase? (1 mark)
You have been asked to choreograph a dance and research a variety of starting points/stimuli. You are given a piece of music as one starting point/stimuli. Suggest three different starting points/stimuli for a dance composition other than music. (3 marks)

10. Set Study
What do you consider the key characteristics of your set study to be?