Year 8 - Physical education
Capoeira: improvised duets
Dance: crossing continents
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Unit Summary
The unit explores a stylistic approach that outlines the different application of Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to four contrasting but inter-related dance styles enabling the learners to draw comparisons and consider why and how wider societal factors affected their evolution.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to improvise with a partner.
Key Notes
- Move: Capoeira involves projecting a calm confidence through our actions.
- Think: maintaining focus on our opponent requires consistent concentration.
- Feel: ensuring non-contact requires both players to show self-discipline and control.
- Connect: adjusting our actions to respond to those of others involves empathy.
Vocabulary To Learn
- improvise: to move spontaneously, without prior planning
- focus: where a performer is looking
- develop: ways to change or alter an action
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- In Capoeira you use pre-recorded music.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: Capoeira involves projecting a calm confidence through our actions. Think: maintaining focus on our opponent requires consistent concentration.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'improvise'
to move spontaneously, without prior planning.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: In Capoeira you use pre-recorded music. Correction: In Capoeira the music is played live and the tempo and style of the music dictates the style of the game that will be played.
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