A set of two revision posters for Christopher Bruce’s Rooster tailored for AQA A-Level Dance. These posters outline the key themes for each song, provide essential background information, and highlight relevant lyrics that directly link to movement. They offer students a clear, structured resource to support effective revision and essay preparation.
Powerpoint with 5 lessons focused on the AQA GCSE Dance stimuli for 2025. This includes 5 practical exploration lessons with optional homework/preparation tasks for students to explore each stimuli, gain deeper understanding of intentions they could select and make informed choices about their final choreography. Focuses on motif creation, interpretation, development, relationships and devices and improvisation, with a mix of teacher led and student led tasks.
This PDF contains written exemplars of answers for Section C of the GCSE Dance exam paper, giving answers in relation to:
The choreographic approach
The dance style
The movement content
The structure and form
Choreographic devices
Number of Dancers
Costumes
Lighting
Aural Setting
Physical Setting
Really useful to support teacher planning, or as a resource for students to use to
support their revision.
Unit of work which covers:
Akram Khan’s background, style and influences
Zero Degrees analysis (Section 1 passports, Section 3 Shadows and Sufi, Section 7 Barhant Attack and Block, Section 10 The Lady’s Husband, Section 11 Abhinaya, Section 14 Dummy Duality)
Dust analysis (full work)
UPDATED to include his contribution to the ICDS
The unit includes multiple PowerPoints suitable for 60-90 minute lessons with full analysis of themes and constituent features, starter tasks and practice questions. Many lessons include solid evidence examples for students. There are also additional worksheets which could be used as homework, revision or classwork.
6 Lesson plans on a power point format SOW. This Sow can cover Year 7/8 or 9.
Lesson includes; what parkour is, contact work, key movements in the style of parkour, links between dance and parkour and the principles behind parkour.
All lessons have; lesson objectives, starters, lesson tasks, pictures , videos and plenaries.
Unit of work covering the following:
Matthew Bourne’s background, style and influences
Swan Lake (Prologue, Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 4, and Act II)
The Car Man (Garage scene, Shower scene, Luca’s arrival, Engagement party, Dino’s murder scene)
UPDATED to add essay writing and revision PPs, including links to the development of the ICDS.
The lesson PowerPoints can be used for 90 minute lessons and can even be split into further lessons depending on how much time you spend on each section. The unit comes with some extra worksheets for revision and includes starter tasks and some homework tasks, including exam style questions.
A bright and colourful AQA A-Level Dance revision poster for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Sutra. It breaks down the key themes in each section, along with the starting points and main collaborators. Students can use this as a revision aid and add their own movement examples for every section to support any essay question.
This PDF contains written exemplars of answers for Section C of the GCSE Dance exam paper, giving answers in relation to:
The choreographic approach
The dance style
The movement content
The structure and form
Choreographic devices
Number of Dancers
Costumes
Lighting
Aural Setting
Physical Setting
Really useful to support teacher planning, or as a resource for students to use to
support their revision.
KS3 focussed Bollywood SOW. looking specifically at Gestures and then used the 8 basic actions to develop.
Focusses on introductory skills such as canon, formations, directions, level etc.
All resources needed are in the powerpoint along with lesson slides including starters.
Word document with written SOW to aid too.
Participants will get to dive right into their own themed story adventure whilst moving their bodies. Aimed to spark imagination and improve control of movement, these dance stories will get children thoroughly engaged. the two themes are “Passing Through the Jungle” and “Journey to Space.”
4 documents in Word and PDF format
Physical Skills Definitions
Physical Skills Training Methods
Expressive Skills Definitions
Expressive Skills Training Methods
Mental Skills Definitions
Technical Skills Definitions
These flashcards have been created so they can be printed and used as a physical revision source for students. They also make an excellent card game of ‘snap’ or ‘pairs’ which students also enjoy.
Print double sided along the long edge
This can be used as a visual to show pupils and remind them of the 5 basic dance movements throughout the lesson introducing each one each lesson. This is more beneficial to a year 7 group just starting dance or with year 8’s to reinforce these.
Two-page revision notes for each of the professional works. Students can use these sheets as cribnotes for revision.
Works covered:
Emancipation of Expressionism
Within Her Eyes
Artificial Things
Shadows
Infra
A Linha Curva
Areas covered:
Fact File facts
Stimulus, Choreographic Approach, Choreographic Intent
Structure
Movement Examples
Features of production
1-Hour Lesson – Fully Interactive – Ready to Teach
Dear Colleague,
Bring the dramatic events of the Ghost Dance movement and the Wounded Knee Massacre to life with this engaging lesson. Students will explore life on the reservations by 1880, analyse the causes and consequences of the Ghost Dance, and evaluate the long-term significance of the Wounded Knee Massacre through structured knowledge and exam-style questions.
All lessons in this series are interactively assessed and follow a clear, consistent structure, helping students build knowledge step by step and track their progress throughout the unit.
Learning Objectives:
LO1: Describe conditions in the reservations by 1880
LO2: Order the causes of the Ghost Dance and the consequences of the Wounded Knee Massacre
LO3: Evaluate the consequences of the Wounded Knee Massacre
Lesson Features:
Knowledge-building activities on life in the reservations and the Ghost Dance movement
Chronology and cause/consequence tasks on the Wounded Knee Massacre
Exam practice with one 4-mark and two 8-mark questions (model answers and guidance included)
Fully assessed activities throughout the lesson
Clear, straightforward structure ready to deliver immediately
What’s Included:
Complete PowerPoint presentation
Worksheets and task templates
Model answers for the exam-style questions
Extension activities for higher-achieving students
This resource is ideal for GCSE History students and works perfectly as part of a full scheme on the American West. It also fits into the broader units on Plains Indians, Settlers, Development of the Plains, and Law & Order.
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW – it really helps my shop grow and lets me keep creating high-quality lessons for you.
If you encounter any issues, please email me at alepitirra@hotmail.it
and I’ll do my best to solve them.
Best regards,
Alessio
Single PDF of ‘Movements’ poster which is optimised for A1 and A2 printing.
The poster gives examples of some ‘actions’ including Turns, Elevation, Travels and Balances.
Also available as part of a full pack of 5!
His key contributions to the development of Rambert Dance Company. Includes a lesson PowerPoint for 2-3 lessons, accompanying worksheet and extra reading resources.
Michael Jones explains the importance of mark making in learning to write and describes a project involving four year olds in six Luton schools that also provides pointers towards helping older children with additional learning needs.
Lesson including practical approaches to teaching the anatomy and physiology of the A Level Dance course. Covers flexion, extension, rotation, abduction, circumduction, adduction. Students create a dance in which they perform these actions and say the movement and the joint in which it takes place as they perform to the rest of the class. Please leave feedback or ideas for improvement. Thank you. Significance of dances. Understanding dance.