Dance appreciation overview quiz - AQA GCSE Dance quiz

By a written exam

By a practical performance

By a recorded choreography task

By a visiting examiner watching a duet

Choosing the most suitable costume, lighting and set or props

Describing the features accurately with the right vocabulary

Performing the whole dance accurately from memory

Writing a brand new motif for the performance

Listing the full names of all the dancers in order

Counting the exact number of sections in the dance

Explaining what the features communicate, linked to the intention

Measuring the precise dimensions of the performance space and stage

Set, props, costume, lighting and aural setting

Warm up, cool down, alignment, posture

Binary, ternary, rondo, narrative

Action, dynamic, spatial, relationship content

Strengths with evidence and areas for improvement with a plan

Only positive praise for all of your strengths

A complete list of all the set anthology works

The detailed lighting, costume and set plan for the whole dance

An opinion stated with no supporting evidence and no link to the intention

An evaluative point backed by specific evidence and linked to the intent

A plain description of the costume and the set used

A simple list of the dancers who took part

It simply takes far too long to write out properly in full

It has been completely banned by AQA examiners

It is not precise enough to build a clear interpretation

It only ever applies to the costume choices

A clearly labelled diagram

A direct quotation from a set textbook

The dancer's personal biography

Specific evidence from the named work

Aural setting, costume, lighting and set or props

Only the accompanying music and sound

Only the stage lighting and effects

None at all, the movement is analysed completely alone

Describe the events of the dance in a completely random and unplanned written order

State the intent, then evaluate movement and production features with evidence

List only the basic factual details about the named work

Write about nothing at all except the dancers' costume