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Year 4 - Physical education

Contrasting dance: Wales

Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles

Unit Summary

A stylistic approach develops Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to study dances from other times and places reviewing how and why motifs are repeated and developed. Pupils develop an understanding of the impact of accompaniment, landscape and other design features on action content.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to identify different types of contrast used in choreography.

Key Notes

Move: performing contrasting actions linked to direction, levels and pathways requires accurate timings.
Think: making small changes to choreography requires creativity and decision making.
Feel: resilience enables us to concentrate and try our hardest to ensure we can perform with accurate timings.
Connect: working well as a group always requires cooperation.

Vocabulary To Learn

contrast: distinctly different
pathway: the track of a journey
repeat: to perform again

Common Mistakes To Avoid

Pupils think that contrast just means doing the opposite of someone else.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: performing contrasting actions linked to direction, levels and pathways requires accurate timings. Think: making small changes to choreography requires creativity and decision making.

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

distinctly different.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think that contrast just means doing the opposite of someone else. Correction: Contrast in dance means that you are doing something distinctly different, for example, performing different directions, levels and pathways to each other.

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