Year 7 - Physical education
Dance: can you accurately replicate a movement sequence?
Remote learning: dance development
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses upon personal experiences to consolidate and deepen pupil knowledge and understanding of Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to create, develop and analyse ideas, motifs and dances. Pupils will use similarities and differences to form connections and contrast.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to accurately replicate a taught movement phrase and modify the rhythm to suit different music or styles.
Key Notes
- Move: performing dance actions in set movement phrases requires control.
- Think: accurately replicating a taught movement phrase requires concentration and reflection.
- Feel: self-discipline enables you to keep trying to improve the quality of your performance.
- Connect: responding to the music to imagine how movements would fit with others makes an expressive performance.
Vocabulary To Learn
- replicate: to copy, reproduce or recreate something as accurately as possible
- movement phrase: a short sequence of connected movements that express an idea, emotion or story
- rhythm: a repeated pattern of movement or sound
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- You always perform a motif at the same speed.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing dance actions in set movement phrases requires control. Think: accurately replicating a taught movement phrase requires concentration and reflection.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'replicate'
to copy, reproduce or recreate something as accurately as possible.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: You always perform a motif at the same speed. Correction: Often you adapt your motif to the speed of the music you are dancing to.
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