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Year 11 - Physical education

Combining and refining Jive ideas to strive for greater partner awareness

Dance: movie moves

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 both lead and respond to your partner when performing the Jive.

Key Notes

  • Move: partner jumps, cues and counterbalances are key elements of the Jive dance style.
  • Think: leading when improvising as a pair requires quick and decisive decision making.
  • Feel: repeatedly performing the same action to improve performance draws upon resilience.
  • Connect: allowing another person control over our actions and safety involves trust.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • support: to assist, to bear all or part of the effort
  • improvise: to perform instantaneously, without prior planning
  • cue: a signal to a performer

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Counterbalances are always symmetrical.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: partner jumps, cues and counterbalances are key elements of the Jive dance style. Think: leading when improvising as a pair requires quick and decisive decision making.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'support'

to assist, to bear all or part of the effort.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Counterbalances are always symmetrical. Correction: Counterbalances can involve the same action as a partner but these can be varied by level, direction of size. Counterbalances can also use contrasting body parts to connect, e.g. the hand of one dancer pressing against the shoulder of their partner.

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