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Choreography (Component 1)

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do aural setting and staging support and complete a piece of choreography?

Aural setting and staging: choosing and using accompaniment, sound and silence, and the physical setting (lighting, set, costume, staging configuration) so they support the movement and the choreographic intention.
How AQA A-Level Dance expects you to choose and use aural setting (music, sound, silence) and staging (lighting, set, costume, performance space) so they reinforce the movement and communicate the choreographic intention in Component 1.
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How do choreographic devices and structures shape a dance into a coherent whole?

Choreographic devices and structures: unison, canon, contrast, climax, highlights, repetition and motif, used within structures such as binary, ternary, rondo, narrative and episodic form to give a dance shape and meaning.
How AQA A-Level Dance expects you to use choreographic devices (unison, canon, contrast, climax, highlights) and structural forms (binary, ternary, rondo, narrative, episodic) to give choreography coherent shape and communicate intention.
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How do you develop a short motif into rich, varied movement material?

Motif and motif development: creating a movement motif from a stimulus and manipulating it through changes of action, dynamics, space and relationships to generate varied, coherent material.
How AQA A-Level Dance expects you to create a motif and develop it: manipulating action, space, dynamics and relationships through repetition, inversion, retrograde, fragmentation and other devices to build coherent choreographic material.
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How do you move from a stimulus to a finished, coherent piece of choreography?

The choreographic process: responding to a stimulus, generating and selecting movement material, structuring the work, and refining it through improvisation, rehearsal and editing into a complete solo or group dance.
How AQA A-Level Dance expects you to work through the choreographic process: interpreting a stimulus, improvising and generating material, selecting and structuring it, and refining the work into a coherent solo or group dance for Component 1.
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