Year 5 - Physical education
My tag, your tag
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 create original choreography using the stimuli of graffiti tags.
Key Notes
- Move: performing our own tag motif, as well as a crew tag, requires a range of actions using different body parts.
- Think: creating a range of options for our 'tag' requires evaluation and decision making to select our favourite.
- Feel: working together and supporting each other to improve requires integrity.
- Connect: working with others to combine our tag ideas requires respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- tag: a graffiti artist's signature
- crew: a collective or group
- motif: a pattern of moves that are seen more than once in a dance
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that in order to bring graffiti 'tags' to life through movement, you have to write in the air.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing our own tag motif, as well as a crew tag, requires a range of actions using different body parts. Think: creating a range of options for our 'tag' requires evaluation and decision making to select our favourite.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'tag'
a graffiti artist's signature.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that in order to bring graffiti 'tags' to life through movement, you have to write in the air. Correction: Creating a 'tag' using your body can involve writing in the air, but it could also include making and holding a shape, or even using the colour, style or shading as the stimulus for your actions.
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
- Influences: Hip Hop Study Guide
- Making your mark: applying a style Study Guide
- Multimedia 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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