Year 11 - Physical education
Combining and refining dance ideas to strive for excellence in projection
Dance: movie moves
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Unit Summary
This unit utilises a stylistic approach that introduces both a wider movement vocabulary and demonstrates the value of dance as an important social construct; crossing time, cultures and emphasising relevance as a lifelong activity for positive physical, emotional and social health.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to project character and meaning effectively.
Key Notes
- Move: using everyday actions can add authenticity to characterisation.
- Think: deciding how an action is performed results in more accurate projection.
- Feel: ensuring accuracy and authenticity requires resilience to ensure the detail is correct.
- Connect: acting on feedback from others involves trust in their observation and interpretation.
Vocabulary To Learn
- projection: the communication of the dance idea
- facial expression: movements or positions of the face
- body language: conscious or unconscious postures or actions that communicate feelings or moods.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Performers have to smile all the time.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using everyday actions can add authenticity to characterisation. Think: deciding how an action is performed results in more accurate projection.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'projection'
the communication of the dance idea.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Performers have to smile all the time. Correction: Performers use facial expression to communicate the mood or feelings of their character. This range can include smiling if happy, weeping if sad, a furrowed brow if worried, a cleanched jaw if angry or eye-rolling if annoyed.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Combining and refining Jive ideas to strive for greater partner awareness Study Guide
- Combining and refining Salsa ideas to strive for awareness of bodily tension Study Guide
- Prom night: film clips and stills as a stimulus for traditional social dances Study Guide
- Prom night: Salsa Study Guide
- Prom night: the Jive Study Guide
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