Year 9 - Physical education
Move, don't move: relationships and stillness
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 stillness to add contrast.
Key Notes
- Move: stillness requires the precise use of balance, strength and control.
- Move: an aesthetic dance will include both physical and expressive skills.
- Think: deciding when and how to apply stillness involves evaluating the effect from the audience's perspective.
- Feel: useful feedback is delivered with honesty and integrity.
- Connect: making adjustments to choreography requires all performers to cooperate fully.
Vocabulary To Learn
- stillness: the absence of motion
- contrast: distinctly different
- staging: how the audience are positioned for a performance
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The audience are always directly facing the stage/performers.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: stillness requires the precise use of balance, strength and control. Move: an aesthetic dance will include both physical and expressive skills.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'stillness'
the absence of motion.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: The audience are always directly facing the stage/performers. Correction: Whilst most theatres use an 'end on' arrangement, this isn't always the case. Fashion shows traditionally use a 'thrust' stage, lecture-demonstrations might use 'in the round' and performances such as Mummers' plays, may use 'promenade'.
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