Year 9 - Physical education
Look here: focus and emphasis
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 use the expressive skills of focus and emphasis effectively.
Key Notes
- Move: effective use of expressive skills communicates the dance ideas clearly.
- Think: projecting ideas effectively requires evaluating the application of expressive skills.
- Feel: the precise use of focus can communicate the mood of feeling of a performance.
- Connect: cooperating with others is necessary to produce coherent group work.
Vocabulary To Learn
- focus: where a performer is looking
- emphasis: to highlight a shape, action or performer(s)
- design features: other elements in a performance, e.g. lighting or costume
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Performers should always look straight ahead and project to their audience.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: effective use of expressive skills communicates the dance ideas clearly. Think: projecting ideas effectively requires evaluating the application of expressive skills.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'focus'
where a performer is looking.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Performers should always look straight ahead and project to their audience. Correction: In many styles, the connection to the audience is an important part of the performance. This can also be achieved by including a change of focus to communicate the performer's mood or intention, or to indicate what the audience should be looking at.
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