Year 10 - Physical education
Dance: can you use improvisation to articulate your feelings?
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 create a captivating dance performance that expresses your feelings.
Key Notes
- Move: improvising requires adaptation to move the body freely to reflect different emotions.
- Think: using improvisation requires you to think about how your choices of movement communicate specific feelings.
- Feel: expressing emotions through dance requires confidence and awareness of your feelings.
- Connect: drawing on your own experiences allows your performance to feel meaningful and engaging.
Vocabulary To Learn
- improvisation: to move spontaneously, without prior planning
- emotion: a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events - these can be positive or negative
- awareness: being conscious of your environment, actions, thoughts and feelings
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Improvising can have a negative effect on a dance sequence.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: improvising requires adaptation to move the body freely to reflect different emotions. Think: using improvisation requires you to think about how your choices of movement communicate specific feelings.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'improvisation'
to move spontaneously, without prior planning.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Improvising can have a negative effect on a dance sequence. Correction: Improvising is actually a useful way to explore ideas, express emotions and develop new movements. It allows dancers to be creative and adapt their sequence, which can make the dance more interesting and personal.
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