Reading Tasks
Reading Tasks
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers By Martha Bremser & Lorna Sanders.
A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact.
Available in the LRC.
The Intimate Act of Choreography
The Intimate Act of Choreography by Lynn Ann Blom and Tarin Chaplin
A comprehensive book that covers all aspects of choreography from the most fundamental techniques to highly sophisticated artistic concerns.
Dancing Revelations
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture by Thomas F. DeFrantz
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle.
Dance Technique and Injury Prevention
Dance Technique and Injury Prevention by Justin Howse
Dance Technique and Injury Prevention has established itself as the key reference for everyone involved in dance injury and treatment, physical therapy, and dance instruction.
Writing Tasks
Review
Write a review about a performance you have been to see at The Sandpit or another theatre to go in the Sandprint.
Interview
Interview a dance teacher, dance student or dance practitioner and write up your key findings from the discussion.
Listening Tasks
Matthew Bourne interview
Listen to the interview with Matthew Bourne on reinventing Swan Lake.
Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne OBE is an English choreographer whose work includes contemporary dance and dance theatre.
Watching Tasks
Ted talks
‘A choreographer's creative process in real time’.
We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does. He demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience, working with two dancers to build phrases of dance, live and unscripted, on the TEDGlobal stage.
Watch a performance at Sadlers Wells Theatre, a theatre in Angel (London) , which hosts a variety of dance works from contemporary to hip-hop companies.
The theatre strives to make and share dance that inspires us all. As one of the world’s leading dance organisations, they’re dedicated to dance in all its forms and invite you to experience all it has to offer.
Trips & Visits
Hip Hop convention event
Visit the UK's biggest dance event for Hip Hop artists.
Danceworks Studio
Take part in a dance class at Danceworks studios.
Creative Tasks
Dance for camera
Create a dance for camera performance piece based on the theme 'friendships'.
Using videoing and editing tools and incorporating any dance style for the choreography.
Student Led Tasks
Audition for a county dance company or Sandringham dance companies.
Take part in Silver and/or Gold Arts Award.
A range of unique qualifications that supports anyone aged up to 25 to grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with and take part in the wider arts world through taking challenges in an art form.
Lead or assistant running a club for younger students.
House Choreography/ House Arts
Lead your house in the two dance house events.