Year 10 - Physical education
Dance: can you use body language to express your emotions?
Remote learning: advanced dance
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Unit Summary
This unit uses a thematic approach with body language and improvisation to express emotions and feelings. Pupils develop movement ideas beyond those introduced. Open-ended tasks encourage varied responses, building creative thinking and expressive skills.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to adapt a dance phrase to express different emotions.
Key Notes
- Move: changing the dance phrases with speed and gestures can show different emotions.
- Think: considering how speed can express different feelings.
- Feel: successful portrayal of emotions requires practice and self-evaluation.
- Connect: link to different emotions you have felt at different times.
Vocabulary To Learn
- emotions: a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events - these can be positive or negative
- expressive skill: performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension, facial expression
- dynamics: the speed and force of an action
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Big movements are always better.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: changing the dance phrases with speed and gestures can show different emotions. Think: considering how speed can express different feelings.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'emotions'
a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events - these can be positive or negative.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Big movements are always better. Correction: Sometimes more subtle, small emotions can be expressive in how they portray emotions.
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