Year 9 - Physical education
A certain style: style features
Dance: the challenge
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Unit Summary
This unit utilises a pure approach that allows action-space-dynamics-relationships to be combined with fluency, accuracy and detail with each lesson being driven by a different stimuli to challenge creativity and problem solving drawing upon prior learning and preparing pupils for KS4.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply a range of style features to adapt your work.
Key Notes
- Move: accurately identifying and applying style features enables choreography to represent other times or places.
- Move: identifying and applying the necessary expressive and physical skills improves the overall performance.
- Think: identifying style features involves evaluating the different qualities of various dance styles.
- Feel: reproducing style features requires integrity to ensure authenticity.
- Connect: making changes to a motif involves discussion, planning and cooperation.
Vocabulary To Learn
- style features: distinguishing traits or characteristics
- expressive skill: performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension, facial expression
- physical skill: technical qualities made up of balance, control, coordination, strength, stamina, flexibility, placement, alignment and posture
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- It is acceptable to copy the work of others in dance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: accurately identifying and applying style features enables choreography to represent other times or places. Move: identifying and applying the necessary expressive and physical skills improves the overall performance.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'style features'
distinguishing traits or characteristics.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: It is acceptable to copy the work of others in dance. Correction: Copying the work of others and passing it off as your own is known as plagiarism. However, identifying features that are common to a dance style and applying it to your choreography is different, but should remain respectful to the original source.
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