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Physical Skills

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Alignment
Balance
Co-ordination
Flexibility
Strength
Posture
Control
Extension
Isolation
2
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Mental Skills (The 3 C’s!)

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Commitment
Concentration
Confidence

3
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Expressive Skills (Showing the Audience)

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Projection
Focus
Facial Expression
Phrasing

4
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Technical Skills (Dance Technique)

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Your ACTIONS: turning, gestures, jumps, floor work.
Dynamic use
Timing
Musicality
Rhythm
5
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Safe Practice

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Safe movement execution
No Jewellery 
Footwear
Clothing 
Warm ups/Cool downs
Nutrition & Hydration
6
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A Choreographic Process (Describe)

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A choreographer’s aim is to execute their visions onto their dancers’ bodies through movement and performance. This can be through research, improvisation, collaboration.

7
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Choreographic Structures

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Binary
Ternary 
Rondo
Narrative
Episodic
Transitions
8
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Aural Settings (Give examples)

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Spoken word
Song with lyrics
Instrumental songs
Silence
Natural sound
Body Percussion
9
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What effects does the aural setting have on choreography?

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Try and refer back to these 4 when explaining the effect of aural setting:
Mood/Atmosphere
Contrast 
Structure
Relationship to the dance theme
10
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Performance environments

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Proscenium arch
End stage
Site sensitive
In the round

11
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Similarities in Infra/Shadows

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Dramatic music (Aural)
Darker Set Stage 
Duets and Solos
Conceptual/At times narrative
Approach to choreography IE Show, Make, Task - including the dancers
Movement derived from Ballet
12
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Differences in Infra/Shadows

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Bruce's Stimulus (Fratres [Music])
Mcgregors Stimulus (The word Below)
Costuming
LED Screen in Infra
Proscenium Arch (Infra)
End Stage in (Shadows)
4 vs 12 Dancers
13
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Similarities in Artificial Things & Within her Eyes

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Both are contemporary based
Use of duets
Collaboration with Dancers
Musical accompaniment

14
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Differences between Artificial Things & WHE

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2 vs 4 dancers
Movement content (although both use contact work)
Site Specific VS Proscenium Arch
Costume
Stimulus - Paintings/Personal/Snowglobe vs A Love Story

15
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A Linha Curva - Who, What, When?

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Itzik Galili with Rambert
2009
A flamboyant piece
Capoeira, Samba, Pulses
The Curved Line 
All about fun
Collaborative (Dancers improvised in creative process)
16
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How does A Linha Curva show it’s intention - having fun.

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Coloured lycra shorts
Colourful lighting
Lit up Dance Squares
Upbeat rhythmic content
Large group of dancers 
Unison (Enjoyable to watch)
Percussive Music by Percossa
End stage with live percussionists 
Repetitive movement
17
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Emancipation of Expressionism - Who, What, When?

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Kenrick H20 Sandy
BOYBLUE Ent.
2013
Hip-hop piece

18
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Stimulus of Emancipation of Expressionism

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Til Enda by Olafur Arnalds

19
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4 sections and 4 movements?

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Genesis, Growth & Struggle, Connection, Empowerment

Ninja Walk, Ninja Glide, Ninja Static, Chariots of Fire

20
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Kenrick H20 Sandy’s intention with EofE

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wants the
audience to feel that they are witnessing and sharing an emotional
journey through the piece and appreciating hip hop dance as an art
form

21
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Visual content of EofE

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Blue wash lighting
No set/props
Fog/smoke used
Proscenium Arch