Year 10 - Physical education
Geology: performance skills
Dance: phenomenal
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Unit Summary
This unit utilises a thematic approach to provide pupils with a platform to apply knowledge from other subject areas. This will enable them to develop movement ideas beyond those introduced. Open ended tasks encourage and value a range of responses continuing to build creativity and teamwork.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply expressive skills to improve your performance.
Key Notes
- Move: including where a dancer is looking improves accuracy in projection.
- Think: imagination is used to appreciate how an action appears to an audience.
- Feel: working collaboratively requires self-belief and trust in your group members.
- Connect: working with other design features, e.g. the accompaniment involves cooperation.
Vocabulary To Learn
- focus: where a performer is looking
- extension: lengthening through the body
- projection: communicating the dance idea
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Dancers should be moving all the time.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: including where a dancer is looking improves accuracy in projection. Think: imagination is used to appreciate how an action appears to an audience.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'focus'
where a performer is looking.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Dancers should be moving all the time. Correction: Stillness is one of the five basic actions. Similar to punctuation in a sentence, it can help to bring meaning and context as well as highlight important moments. Stillness can include brief pauses as well as prolonged periods of inactivity.
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