Year 5 - Physical education
Developing motifs using question and answer
Dance: your tag, everyday art
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Unit Summary
A themed approach uses Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to react to controversial art forms. Looking at Basquiat and Banksy, pupils question if it is social comment, work of art or criminal act. Using analytical skills, infusing dance with Hip-hop influences that emerged alongside graffiti art.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply the relationship of question and answer to a motif in unison.
Key Notes
- Move: performing actions with clarity and accuracy requires control and balance.
- Think: creating a motif and changing the relationship between unison, and question and answer, requires decision making.
- Feel: performing a motif in pairs requires self-discipline to ensure accurate timings.
- Connect: collaborating to combine two motifs with a partner requires respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- motif: a recurring pattern of actions that can be varied or developed
- question and answer: a choreographic relationship where two or more dancers take turns to perform different actions
- unison: a choreographic relationship where the performers perform the same action at the same time
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When creating a motif to represent ideas from a painting, you must use the same action over and over again.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing actions with clarity and accuracy requires control and balance. Think: creating a motif and changing the relationship between unison, and question and answer, requires decision making.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'motif'
a recurring pattern of actions that can be varied or developed.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When creating a motif to represent ideas from a painting, you must use the same action over and over again. Correction: When creating a motif, you can demonstrate an action then repeat it by changing the size, level, direction, speed, force, using a different body part, adding an extra action, reversing the action or coordinating another action at the same time.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Applying a range of motifs and structuring a dance Study Guide
- Breaking the code Study Guide
- Everyday heroes Study Guide
- Influences: Hip Hop Study Guide
- Making your mark: applying a style Study Guide
- Multimedia Study Guide
- My tag, your tag Study Guide
- Refining, rehearsing and performing a dance using a combination of relationships Study Guide
- Social comment Study Guide
- Stencilling Study Guide
- Visual metaphors Study Guide
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