AQA A-Level Dance set works and areas of study overview quiz quiz

Rambert

The development of American jazz dance

The independent dance scene in Britain

Classical ballet

Martha Graham

Marie Rambert

Christopher Bruce

Merce Cunningham

Classical European ballet and its codified technique and vocabulary

Indian classical dance traditions such as Bharatanatyam and Kathak

African and African American social and vernacular dance

The formal court dances of the Renaissance and Baroque periods

Pointe work

Turnout above all else

Silence throughout

Isolations

The distinctive, recognisable way a practitioner makes movement

The full list of every work a dance company has ever performed in its history

The lighting design and stage effects used in a single individual work

The total number of dancers currently employed in a dance company

Only their date of birth and the year they founded their company

Their distinctive style, influences and signature works

Only the music and the composers they chose to work with

Only the sources and amounts of their company's annual funding

Only the premiere date and the venue where the work was first performed

Only the individual fitness and conditioning level of each of the dancers

How, when, why and for whom it was made, including company and collaborators

Only the exam marking scheme used to assess the written answer about the work

Because writing any kind of list is strictly against the AQA examination rules for this paper

Because the production context of a set work does not matter and earns a candidate no marks at all

Because only the constituent features of the work itself ever earn any marks, so the production context can safely be ignored entirely

Because connecting context to features explains why a work looks as it does and supports interpretation and evaluation

Two

One

Three

Four

1900 to 1940

1940 to 1975

1975 to 2000

2000 to present

Only memorising the names of the dancers who first performed the work

Learning to perform the whole of the set work yourself from memory

Analysing its choreographic intention, constituent features and context

Designing a completely new lighting plot and stage set for the existing work

It completely replaces the need to give any specific examples from the work in your answer

It directly tells you exactly how many marks will be awarded for the written response

It is only ever useful for creating your own choreography and is no help at all for evaluating a practitioner's work

The style explains why the movement looks as it does, so you can judge how well it serves the intention