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Year 11 - Physical education

Combining and refining Salsa ideas to strive for awareness of bodily tension

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 apply tension to control your shapes and actions.

Key Notes

  • Move: consistently applying an appropriate stance contributes to communicating the dance style.
  • Think: decision making is utilised to realise how a position can be maintained during action.
  • Feel: applying multiple factors at the same time requires resilience.
  • Connect: a strong frame held by a partner conveys confidence and instils trust.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • tension: how the body is held and controlled
  • stance: the posture or position of the body
  • frame: how the upper torso, arms, hands and head are held

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • In Salsa you have to apply tension to your whole body.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: consistently applying an appropriate stance contributes to communicating the dance style. Think: decision making is utilised to realise how a position can be maintained during action.

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

how the body is held and controlled.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: In Salsa you have to apply tension to your whole body. Correction: In Salsa it is the torso that is firmly held maintaining an upright stance, the arms are also fixed when in hold but change to some degree when moving between holds or when moving independently. The legs largely remain soft and fluid.

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