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Year 7 - Physical education

Dance: can you choreograph your own expressive dance performance?

Remote learning: dance development

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 create an original dance phrase using different dynamics and expression.

Key Notes

  • Move: ensuring our movements demonstrate a range of dynamics and expression enables a clear performance.
  • Think: evaluating and improving our performance ensures that the motif's message is clear.
  • Feel: striving to improve the quality and clarity of a motif requires resilience.
  • Connect: imagining how my movements would relate to others and the music makes the performance feel expressive.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • choreography: making a dance
  • expressive skill: performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension, facial expression
  • performance: the act of executing the skill to the best of your ability, especially when it counts

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • A dance routine cannot repeat any motifs within it.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: ensuring our movements demonstrate a range of dynamics and expression enables a clear performance. Think: evaluating and improving our performance ensures that the motif's message is clear.

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

making a dance.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: A dance routine cannot repeat any motifs within it. Correction: A dance routine can use repeated phrases of movement, for example, when a chorus comes back on within the song.

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