Year 11 - Physical education
Prom night: Salsa
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 apply changes to the basic Salsa step pattern to add interest and complexity.
Key Notes
- Move: learning the basic steps of a dance style and how to vary them provides a solid foundation.
- Think: exploring how steps can be adapted to add interest involves decision making.
- Feel: combining actions and style features requires resilience.
- Connect: working closely with a partner involves clear communication and trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Latin American: a family of dance styles from the Caribbean, South and Central America
- embellish: adding extra detail to make the action content more attractive
- parallel: the position of the feet when standing in a neutral position with the weight evenly distributed
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Dance actions should always be performed as big as possible so they are clear and stand out to an audience.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: learning the basic steps of a dance style and how to vary them provides a solid foundation. Think: exploring how steps can be adapted to add interest involves decision making.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Latin American'
a family of dance styles from the Caribbean, South and Central America.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Dance actions should always be performed as big as possible so they are clear and stand out to an audience. Correction: Whilst this is often the case for performance dances, social dances are often much smaller and more relaxed in their execution since they are often performed in a limited amount of space and purely for pleasure, rather than an audience.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Combining and refining dance ideas to strive for excellence in projection Study Guide
- 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: the Jive Study Guide
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