SECONDARY & FURTHER EDUCATION
KS3, 4 & Sixth Form.
DANCE SESSIONS
-Single workshops, half term- year long session blocks, & performance projects.
-Curriculum, supply & extended schools sessions.
-Mainstream & SEN Schools.
-Essential for Healthy Schools.
-Meeting 4 ‘Every Child Matters’ objectives.
Dance P.E.
-Range of styles, tasks & bespoke dances.
-QCA P.E. units 1- 4.
Dance P.E. sessions for all age groups, building co-ordination, body & spatial awareness, rhythm & musicality.
Creative sessions are based on any theme or topic area, covering all areas of the Dance units within the P.E. syllabus.
GCSE & A-Level
-Set Studies & Professional Repertory.
-Choreographic Skills; group & solo.
-Working with a stimulus.
-Contemporary technique; Graham, Cunningham, Release.
-Following QCA GCSE Dance criteria.
-Meeting AQA A/AS Dance objectives A01-5.
Technical classes explore professional dance techniques and provide pupils with an enriching experience of professional dance training at their level. Classes can be linked into dance history topics, such as Graham and Cunningham technique.
Choreographic sessions are skill based and offer and encourage ideas for creating movement phrases and structuring dance with impact.
Laura has successfully choreographed both professional dance works for theatre performance, as well as many children and young people's dance performance pieces.
Choreographic workshops draw on participant's ideas and movement phrases to build solo or group dances.
Projects can work towards a complete dance or plant the seeds for pupil's to take their ideas further.
Cross-Curricular Dance Workshops
-English Literature & Dance.
Using text as a stimulus to create movement Another Dance Company's Dance & Text Workshops encourage pupil's to take a fresh look at their academic work through the body. Please see the dance & text workshop page for more information.
“They were inspired… every pupil was challenged, both with technique and choreographic ability.”
Head of P.E., Thomas a Beckett Catholic School, Wakefield.
Lunchtime & After-school clubs
Classes with an emphasis on enjoyment and achievement through movement.
Performance Projects
Working on one dance piece with a group over several sessions.
Learning dance sequences, and creating sections, to form a complete dance with an end performance.
