DanceTallis Dance offers a creative, holistic and analytical approach to the dance curriculum and beyond.
Our key principles include:
Physical and Athletic Techniques: we offer a range of approaches and styles within our curriculum and dance classes. At A-Level and GCSE, students are exposed to vigorous technical training to enhance their physical and technical skills, whilst also challenging their mental capabilities of sticking with difficulty, crafting and improving and developing techniques. In compulsory year 7 and 8 dance lessons, our creative approaches allow students to explore their physicality independently, with expert teachers modelling and guiding challenging movements. Our extra-curricular dance companies boost the progress of all students and are advised for all who wish to enhance their skills in contemporary, commercial jazz, street dance or parkour. Creative and Innovative Approaches to Choreography: independence through choreography is promoted from years 7-13, allowing students to develop their own unique style and to create work based on their own experiences. Original choreography is achieved through guiding our students to challenge the assumptions of what dance is, allowing them to play with possible body shapes, daring to be different and making connections between their own work and that of professional choreographers. Theory-to-Practical-and-back-again: in order to best inform our physical and technical ability, we have to first investigate our biology to understand how the body works. The same can be said for exploring and analysing professional works to inform original choreography. We use a range of learning techniques in lesson and extra-curricular, in order to support the progress of our dancers from both a qualification and skill acquisition point of view. These include making connections through:
Our Inclusive Community: our collaborative, holistic and positive teaching strategies allow inclusion to be the foundation for the dance department. We focus on a range of different styles both inside and outside of the classroom, to cater for a variety of technical and anthropological needs:
We have entered a formal partnership with Trinity Laban, to support our ethics and visions for both institutions. In addition, we have strong partnerships with Greenwich Dance, U-Dance, Step into Dance, the Royal Academy of Dance, East London Dance and One Youth Dance. |
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