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Hi there, welcome to your next remote learning lesson on advanced dance.

My name's Miss Hacking and I'm looking forward to being your teacher today.

So today's lesson is called "Dance: Can You Use Body Language to Express Your Emotions?

" By the end of today's lesson, I'm hoping that we can adapt a dance phrase to express different emotions.

Our key words today are emotions, which is a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events.

These can be positive or negative emotions.

Maybe you've had experience feeling negative emotions or maybe you've had experience feeling positive emotions as well.

Hopefully you will have felt both in your lifetime, but maybe you might be able to reflect on some of the ways you felt in today's lesson.

Our second keyword is expressive skill, which is performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension, and facial expression.

And finally, our final keyword is dynamics and that's the speed and force of an action.

Before we start today's lesson, it's important that we do a warm-up so our body is ready to exercise.

So for this warm-up I'd like you to show what you know about performing different actions with control.

So move around the room to music, try to move to the beat of the music, and every 30 seconds move around the room in a different way.

Challenge yourself to move in time with the beat of the drum in the song.

And can you move at different speeds safely?

Now there is a video showing next of an example of a warm-up, but in this warm-up, you can be as creative as you like.

You can select your own movements of how you want to move around the room so you can have that autonomy to perform the warm-up as you wish, but there is a video showing if you would like some more ideas.

Okay, today's lesson is split into two parts.

In the first part of today's lesson, we're going to be looking at choreographing gestures to portray emotions, and in the second part of today's lesson we're going to be developing dynamics to portray emotions.

Let's get started.

So, dance can tell us stories or express emotions through the use of body language and expressive skills.

And Jacob said, "How can you express emotions through dance gestures?

" Do you have any idea?

So Andeep mentioned that different actions or gestures can represent different emotions, especially using expressive skills.

Let's look at that in a bit more detail.

Expressive skills are performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension and facial expression.

These help to make our choreography reflect certain emotions.

And Andeep asked us, "What emotions are these characters portraying with their expressive skills?

What do you think?

Which emotions do you think these characters are expressing?

You might have said stressed or angry.

You might have said worried or tired, or you might have said shocked for the final one.

That would be how I would analyze those movements of those characters.

Okay, let's have a quick check then.

Which is not a way to show expressive skills?

Would it be A, focus?

B, levels?

C, facial expression?

Or D, projection?

This will test how well you are listening in our keywords and our previous slide.

Well done if you said B, levels.

Levels is not a way to show expressive skill, but focus, facial expression, and projection are all types of expressive skills that we can use in our performance.

So, to portray happiness we could use gestures such as jump up with your hands waving in the air.

For musicality, we could use upbeat lively music because if we use slow, quiet music, that might not portray happiness as much.

For focus, our eyes could be up looking forward.

Projection, to portray happiness we'd want big exaggerated movements.

And for extension, we'd probably want extended arms or high jumps, for example.

And facial expression, this one's probably quite obvious, but you'd want to be smiling and looking like you're having a good time, especially if you're trying to portray happiness What about to portray sadness?

What could we use?

So for gestures, we could set step sideways with our hands on our cheeks.

Musicality could include slow energy music rather than the fast happy music of the happiness emotion, we'd maybe have slow and maybe low energy music.

Focus, our eyes could be looking down, especially if we're trying to portray sadness.

Projection, compared to the happiness, it might be smaller and softer movements.

Extension we probably wouldn't be extending as much as we were to portray happiness so it might be sort of more gentle stepping.

And our facial expression could definitely show a downturned mouth or some kind of sad expression on our face.

What about to portray fear?

What could we use to portray fear?

So gestures, we could hop back with our arms in front.

Musicality, we could have eerie, spooky music.

Focus, eyes behind hands.

So instead of our eyes facing forward really confidently, we might be looking away or looking around us with our eyes hiding behind our hands.

Projection might be small, but jumpy movements as if we're scared of something or something might jump out at us.

Extension could include stretching away from danger.

Facial expression, eyes wide open, looking around nervously.

That's how we're going to portray that fear.

Okay, can you show me an action that could portray these emotions?

So just one action that could show me happiness, sadness and fear.

So this could be up to you how you portray these, but with happiness you might have big gestures or you might have had a smiling face, for example.

Sadness, you might have had your eyes facing down, you might have had your hands covering your face, you might have been using slow, more gentle actions or gestures.

And for fear, you might have had your hands up looking behind your hands, you might have had extension of your arms moving away from something that's scary, you might have been looking around you, okay?

So those are all examples.

You might have done different ones, and that's okay to portray those three emotions.

Okay, so to portray anger, what could you use?

So gestures, you could stomp your feet.

Musicality, you could have a strong heavy beat that sounds quite angry as you listen to it.

Focus, your eyes are focused forward because you're really angry at something, just like the image on the screen.

Projection, you could have big, heavy movements that demonstrate how angry you are.

Extension, again, using those big forceful movements.

We know that sometimes when people are angry they slam the door, they have that anger and they use forceful movements which we could show in our dance movements too.

Facial expression, furrowed eyebrows, so our eyebrows are pushed together and our lips pursed just like the image on the screen.

And to portray boredom, what could we use?

So gestures we could have a stretch and a yawn to show that we're bored.

Musicality, we could have sleepy, slow music.

Focus, our eyes could be looking around because we're not actually focused because we're bored.

Projection could be big and slow movements.

And extension, again, slow and lazy movements, stretching and reaching.

And facial expression, we could be yawning and probably not looking that happy if we're bored.

Okay, now it's your turn to have a go at the task.

What you're going to do is you're going to select three emotions you would like to portray in your dance.

For each emotion, create a short movement motif that shows that feeling.

Think carefully about the gestures, actions and body movements that link to each emotion.

Try to make each motif clear and repeatable so you can develop it further in later tasks.

There is a video showing now and I wonder if you can guess the emotion that this video is showing.

There will be three different emotions and I wonder if you can guess which emotion they're showing.

But this will give you an example of how to complete the task.

Andeep said, "I'm going to link to emotions I've felt before.

" So that might be a good way to do it.

So if you feel certain emotions or have experience feeling certain emotions, you might want to use that experience to help you in today's task.

Okay, let's reflect on how we got on in our first task.

So move.

Changing the dance phrases with speed and gestures can show different emotions.

And Jacob said that "I use three different dance motifs with different gestures to show three different emotions.

" Did you too?

Did you manage to show three different emotions?

It might have been the ones we talked about, or you might have selected other emotions too.

Feel.

Successful portrayal of emotions requires practice and self-evaluation.

And Jacob said that "I practice my different routines to successfully portray different emotions.

" Did you?

I hope that you practice your routine at least once, twice, three times, maybe more, to make sure that you were able to evaluate each time.

You're able to say, right, I did that really, well, but I might change this, or that didn't quite work with the music.

so that you're able to keep improving your performance.

Connect, linking to different emotions you've felt at different times.

And Andeep said that I use my experience of feeling different emotions to link to the choreography I created.

Did you relate to your own experience of feeling certain ways?

Maybe feeling really happy, maybe feeling sad, maybe feeling angry, and linked the moves that you created for your choreography to that feeling.

Well done if you did.

Okay, now it's time to move on to the second part of today's lesson.

We're going to be developing dynamics to portray emotions.

So dynamics are the speed and force of an action.

Jacobs asked, "Can you think of different ways we can explore the dynamics of our motif?

" You might have said speed, energy, or effort And Andeep asked us, "How could we adapt the dynamics of gestures to portray the emotion of being happy?

" So for speed, we could use quick, lively movements to show excitement and joy.

Energy, we could perform movements with high vibrant energy.

An effort could use light, easy and relaxed effort rather than heavy or tense movements to portray that emotion of being happy.

Okay, quick check, true or false?

Dynamics is a space you perform your dance in.

Well, then if you said false, but can you tell me why?

So dynamics are the speed and force of an action, whereas space is the space that you perform the dance in.

So well done if you said something along those lines.

Jacobs asked, "How could we adapt the dynamics of gestures to portray the emotion of being sad?

" What do you think?

So the speed, you could use slow drawn-out movements to show a low heavy mood.

For the energy, you could keep energy low and subdued.

And for effort, you would use gentle soft movements rather than forceful movements to really portray that emotion of being sad.

Andeep asked us, "How could we adapt the dynamics of gestures to portray the emotion of being scared?

What do you think?

For speed, energy and effort.

So the speed might be quick sudden movements to show alertness or panic.

Energy would be keep energy high but tense, showing a sense of urgency.

And the effort would be using sharp, controlled effort to convey caution or anxiety.

And Jacobs asked us, "How could we adapt the dynamics of gestures to portray the emotion of being angry?

" So how could we do, how could we change the speed, the energy and the effort of our gestures to really show that angry emotion?

So you might have thought about speed, using quick, sudden, sharp gestures to reflect aggression.

Energy, movement should feel powerful and impactful.

And effort, using strong and heavy effort to emphasize strength and emotion of feeling angry.

And finally, how could we adapt the dynamics of gestures to portray the emotion of being bored?

What do you think?

So with the speed we might use slow, dragging movements to show a lack of interest.

Energy, keeping energy very low and minimal.

Effort, letting gestures appear half-hearted or casual to show a disinterest would be a way of really portraying that emotion that being bought.

Jacob said that it requires practice to continuously improve our dance performance.

And Andeep said that I'm going to record my dance so I'm able to self-evaluate how well I can portray these emotions.

So yeah, so we always want to improve our dance performance and actually having either someone there to give us some feedback on on how we've performed it or maybe filming ourselves and then self-evaluating our performance is a really good way of gaining that feedback and improving our performance.

Okay, let's have a go at a quick check.

What speed might portray a happier motion?

Would it be A, slow dragged out movement?

Would it be B, quick lively movements?

Would it be C, sharp sudden movements?

Which do you think would portray a happy emotion?

Well done if you said B.

Quick lively movements are probably more likely going to portray a happy emotion in a dance performance.

Okay, now it's your turn for the second part of today's lesson task.

You're going to use the motif you created for task A with your three emotions and you're going to adapt each motif to incorporate dynamics into your performance.

So think about how you can change the speed, energy and effort of your movements to make each emotion more expressive.

Practice performing your motifs with these changes, making sure the dynamics clearly reflect the emotion you are portraying.

Try to make your performance engaging by using a variety of dynamic changes throughout each motif.

Now there's a video following to show you an example of how someone has used more expressive skills to enhance their performance from task A and to really show their three emotions in a more expressive way.

So feel free to watch that video, then pause and have a go at task B yourself.

Okay, so let's reflect on task B and how well you got on developing the dynamics to portray emotions.

So move, changing the dance phrases with speed and gestures can show different emotions.

And Jacob said that, yep, I adapted the speed and motifs to portray different emotions.

Did you?

So when you were demonstrating happiness were you maybe going a bit quicker and more lively with your emotions, whereas if you were portraying a different emotion like sadness, you maybe went a bit slower with your dynamics to really portray that emotion.

So think, considering how speed can express different feelings, and Andeep said that I adapted the speed depending on the emotion I was portraying.

Did you too?

I bet there was a difference in the three emotions that you showed with the speed of your performance, with the speed of your actions.

So well done if you manage to change the speed.

Feel, successful portrayal of emotions requires practice and self-evaluation, and Jacob said that "I practice my different routines to successfully portray different emotions.

" And I hope you did too.

I hope you practiced the different ones so that you got really comfortable showing the different emotions and you evaluated, you used self-evaluation each time to ensure that you improved your performance skills.

And connect, linking to different emotions you felt at different times.

Andeep said that I use my experience of feeling different emotions to link to the dynamics of the choreography.

And again, this helps when you have experienced certain emotions that you really might be able to link your moves to maybe how you felt at that time and how you can use those expressive skills to really demonstrate those feelings that you felt.

So well done if you did that.

Okay, before we finish today's lesson, we are going to complete a cooldown.

So for today's cooldown, I'd like you to move around the space to the beat of the music.

Every 30 seconds you're going to change the action, space, and dynamics of the movement you're doing.

For example, you're going to jump high at faster pace, slide your feet as you move low and slow.

While you're doing it, I'd like you to reflect.

So whilst you're moving with the music, think about how you successfully created actions to move to the beat.

Which actions were more controlled?

And commitment, what could you do between now and the next lesson to practice your skills further?

So you might want to pause the video now so that you've got time to complete your cooldown Okay, that leaves us just enough time left to summarize today's lesson.

So move, changing the dance phrase with speeds and gestures can show different emotions.

Again, from task A to task B, we used dynamics and speed to change how we portrayed those emotions.

Think.

Considering how speed can express different feelings.

Again, we use speed to demonstrate different emotions, maybe doing happy, lively, fast movements compared to our slow, lethargic board movements, for example.

Feel successful portrayal of emotions requires practice and self-evaluation.

Again, each time we performed, we wanted to evaluate our performance so that we could improve and constantly try and improve and connect, And connect, linking to different emotions you've felt at different times.

And this is using your experience and how you felt maybe in the past.

At certain situations or with certain events and using that to channel into your dance moves so that you can really express those different emotions.

Well done today.

You've worked really really hard.

I really enjoyed being your teacher and I hope you've enjoyed the lesson.

I look forward to seeing you again soon.