SECONDARY & FURTHER EDUCATION
KS3, 4 & Sixth Form.
-Single workshops, half term- year long session blocks, & performance projects.
-Curriculum, supply & extended schools sessions.
-Mainstream & SEN Schools.
-Meeting ‘Every Child Matters’ objectives.
Tour Workshops
ADC deliver sessions linked to the professional performance piece Epithet. Students learn repertory from the piece and complete a range of tasks used to make the work. These include creating phrases using syllable rhythms, intonation, and the emotions of characters from particular sections of the texts To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
Once ADC's current work in progress 'Rules' is complete tour workshops linked to the piece will be available to schools.
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.
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 Study
-Group Dances unique to your school.
-Choreographic Skills; group & solo.
-Working with a stimulus.
-Professional repertory
-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 young people's dance performance pieces including group dances for GCSE examination.
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.
“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.
Deeper Thinking
Long term projects in schools. Working with a specific aim identified by the school within their School Improvement Plan. This aim steers the planning and delivery content in conjunction with both staff and pupils. Previous projects have included researching ways to improve pupil's reading and writing skills using dance, and using movement projects to raise pupil aspirations and increase parent participation in school.
