The process
- Researching: finding out about the stimulus, such as a poem, image, object or idea.
- Improvising: exploring movement ideas freely in response to the stimulus.
- Generating: creating movement material, such as motifs.
- Selecting: choosing the best material that shows the intention.
- Developing: changing and extending the material.
- Structuring: organising it into a clear structure.
- Refining and synthesising: polishing the details so everything works together.
Stimuli and intention
- Stimuli can be auditory (music, sounds), visual (pictures, films), kinaesthetic (movement itself), tactile (touch and objects) or ideational (an idea or story).
- The choreographic intention is what the dance aims to communicate, such as a theme, mood or story.
Component 1 choreography
- In Component 1 you choreograph a solo or group dance in response to a stimulus set by AQA.
- Performance and choreography together make up 60% of the GCSE.
Key terms
- Stimulus
- A starting point that inspires a dance.
- Choreographic intention
- What a dance aims to communicate.
- Improvisation
- Exploring movement freely.
- Motif
- A short movement phrase that is repeated and developed.
- Ideational stimulus
- An idea or story that inspires a dance.
- Kinaesthetic stimulus
- Movement itself used as a starting point.
- Refining
- Polishing the details of a dance.