Year 11 - Physical education
Prom night: the Jive
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 accurately perform and combine steps from the Jive.
Key Notes
- Move: applying specific style features enables you to choreograph using different dance styles.
- Think: arranging actions into a choreographic composition involves decision making.
- Feel: resilience is required when learning new, complex actions.
- Connect: working closely with others involves trusting that they will perform with accuracy.
Vocabulary To Learn
- style: the features, qualities or traits that indicate a specific type of dance
- technique: how an action is performed within a specific style, e.g. how the arms should be placed
- mirroring: the choreographic relationship where actions are performed reflecting the movements of another
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Dance styles are set and never change.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: applying specific style features enables you to choreograph using different dance styles. Think: arranging actions into a choreographic composition involves decision making.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'style'
the features, qualities or traits that indicate a specific type of dance.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Dance styles are set and never change. Correction: Dance styles continually evolve. When studying dances from history or other places, we are able to pinpoint key attributes that were relevant at a point in time, they may remain or they may be adapted.
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: Salsa Study Guide
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