Year 5 - Physical education
Influences: Hip Hop
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 influence of graffiti art into your actions.
Key Notes
- Move: performing actions with a Hip Hop posture requires feet apart, knees slightly bent, leaning forwards.
- Move: performing angular shapes and actions while using the correct posture requires control and coordination.
- Think: combining jumps and angular shapes to represent graffiti and Hip Hop dance actions requires evaluation.
- Feel: giving honest and constructive feedback demonstrates integrity.
- Connect: working together to coordinate a group performance requires respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- posture: the position a body is held
- angular: having angles or sharp corners
- culture: the ideas, customs and behaviour of people
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Posture doesn't matter in Hip hop dance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing actions with a Hip Hop posture requires feet apart, knees slightly bent, leaning forwards. Move: performing angular shapes and actions while using the correct posture requires control and coordination.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'posture'
the position a body is held.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Posture doesn't matter in Hip hop dance. Correction: Posture immediately communicates clues about a dance style, whether it is forceful and energetic like Hip Hop or light and graceful like Ballet. It enables the audience to know what to expect.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Applying a range of motifs and structuring a dance Study Guide
- Breaking the code Study Guide
- Developing motifs using question and answer Study Guide
- Everyday heroes 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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