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Hi, there.
Welcome to your next remote learning lesson on advanced dance.
My name's Miss Hacking and I'm really looking forward to being your teacher today.
So, today's lesson is called "Dance: Can You Use Improvisation to Articulate Your Feelings?
" So, by the end of today's lesson, I'm hoping that we can all create a captivating dance performance that expresses your feelings.
So, our keywords today include improvisation, which means to move spontaneously with our prior planning, emotion, which is a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events.
These can be positive or negative.
You might have some experience with some positive emotions and some negative emotions already.
And our final keyword is awareness.
So, awareness means being conscious of your environment, actions, thoughts and feelings.
Before we start today's lesson, we need to make sure our body is prepared for exercise.
So, we do need to complete a warmup.
For today's warmup, I'd like you to show what you know about performing different actions with control.
So, you're going to move around a room to different examples of music, try to move to the beat of the music.
Every 30 seconds, change the music and adapt your movements to the new music.
Challenge yourself to move in time with the beat of the drum in the song.
Can you move at different speeds safely, such as slow, medium, and fast?
Now, there is a video now to show you an example of a warmup that you could copy or this warmup allows you to be as creative as you want and select your own movements.
So, please feel free to select your own movements and move around the room as you wish, as long as you're warming your body up.
Okay, today's lesson is split into two parts.
In the first part of today's lesson, we're going to be looking at improvising actions to represent emotions.
And in our second part of today's lesson, we're going to choreograph a sequence to express a feeling.
Let's get started.
So, improvisation means to move spontaneously without prior planning.
And Aisha said, "It would be fun to try and use improvisation to represent emotions.
" Sam replied saying, "Using improvisation requires you to think about how your choices of movement communicate specific feelings.
" So, we can all join in too.
Okay, true or false?
Improvisation means planning and practicing the sequence before performing.
What do you think, true or false?
That's false.
Can you tell me why?
So, improvisation actually means to move spontaneously without prior planning, so we wouldn't plan or practice the movements before use improvisation.
So, well done if you got that right.
Aisha said, "Let's play a game.
We can take it in terms to call out an emotion and the other person has to improvise an action to represent that feeling.
" Sam said that "It sounds fun.
It will help us practice adapting our body movements to reflect different emotions.
" Aisha said, "Feeling good.
" How could you use an action to show that you are feeling good?
An example could be jumping with an okay signal, so showing that you're okay.
So, using musicality.
So, using upbeat lively music could show that you're feeling good.
Focus, your eyes are up looking forward.
Projection, you might have big exaggerating movements to show that you're feeling good.
Extension, again, your arms might be extended or you might be using high jumps for example.
And your facial expression will probably be smiling if you're feeling good.
So, any of those ways, or you might have thought of your own examples to demonstrate feeling good.
Now, Sam said, "Could you do an improvised action for feeling loving?
" What do you think?
So, you might have done a gesture of blowing a kiss.
Musicality, you might have used light springy music.
Focus, again, your eyes might be forward, looking at the thing that you are lovingly looking at.
Projection, might be light and fluttery movements.
Extension might be light stretches, and facial expression might be happy or pouting.
So, those are examples of how you could use improvised actions to show feeling loving.
Aisha said the next one she'd like you to improvise is feeling tired, what could you do as an action of feeling tired?
So, your gestures could maybe move from either side of your head to suggest that like you want to go to sleep or you could have yawned or stretched perhaps, that could have showed that you're feeling tired.
Your musicality might be sleepy slow music.
Focus your eyes might be looking around 'cause you're quite tired.
Projection would be big, but slow movements, so different to feeling good where you might be using big lively movements.
It might be more big and slow movements 'cause you're feeling quite tired.
Again, extension would be slow and lazy movements, and facial expressions could be your eyes are shutting or you're yawning, for example.
So, that they're good improvised actions for feeling tired.
And Sam said, "Could you show improvised actions for feeling stressed?
" What could you do for feeling stressed?
So, you might have had your hands rubbing your head.
Maybe you are getting a headache 'cause you're feeling so stressed.
Musicality might be strong, heavy music.
Your focus, your eyes might be closed, projection using those big heavy movements, an extension using those big forceful movements.
And your facial expressions might be in a bit of a furrowed eyebrows like you're feeling a bit worried, a bit stressed.
Your headaches come in because of whatever you are stressing about, whatever you are thinking about.
So, those could be some improvised actions for feeling stressed.
You might have thought of different ones, which is absolutely okay.
So, Aisha said, "When improvising, it's useful to draw on experiences of feeling different emotions to help have awareness of how you could represent it.
" So, yeah, so you might have experience of feeling stressed for example.
And therefore you want to think about what you did and how you feel and how you felt at that time to really portray those emotions when you are improvising.
So, you're using your experience previously to help you with your dance actions.
Okay, let's have a go to quick check, which is not an example of a feeling?
Tired, funny, loving or stressed?
What do you think?
So, funny isn't really an example of a feeling, it's more an example of a characteristic.
So, I would say that funny is not an example of a feeling.
So, well done if you put that.
Okay, now it's your turn to have a go at the task.
What you're going to do is write down 10 different emotions on small pieces of paper.
Going to fold them in half and put them in a bowl or a hat.
You are going to pick out a piece of paper at random and perform an improvised action for an emotion.
If you're working with someone else, take it in turns, picking out a piece of paper and performing the emotion.
And then the other person should try and guess the emotion from the action being shown.
So, there is a video now following this that might show you a few emotions or a few ways of how you can play this game.
You might want to watch a video then pause so that you can have a go at improvising the different emotions that you pick out.
Okay, let's reflect on that first task then.
So, move, improvising requires adaptation to move the body freely to reflect different emotions.
And Aisha said that "I adapted my body to improvise performing actions for different emotions.
" Did you?
Did you adapt your body?
So, did you have different emotions, maybe you had anger and sadness and that your actions were different for those different emotions?
Think, using improvisation requires you to think about how your choices of movement communicate specific feelings.
And Sam said that "I thought carefully about my choice of actions when improvising to communicate specific emotions.
" So, again, you need to really think about which actions you choose for the different emotions, especially when you're improvising 'cause you might not have that much time to practice beforehand.
So, feel, expressing emotions through dance requires confidence and awareness of your feelings.
And Aisha said that "I showed confidence to perform improvised actions having awareness of my own feelings.
" So, again, it's important that you consider that you might have felt these emotions in the past and that they might make you feel a certain way, but actually channeling those into the dance can be a really good way of showing and dealing with those emotions as well.
And that also links to the connect on drawing on your own experiences allows your performance to feel meaningful and engaging.
And Sam said that "I use my experience of feeling different emotions to link to the choreography I created.
" So, again, have you felt certain emotions and that when you picked that out the hat, you were able to really relate to how you felt and use that to really aid your dance performance so that it looked really effective and the other person was maybe able to guess which emotion you were portraying?
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 choreograph a sequence to express a feeling.
So, having awareness of your own feelings will help you to portray a feeling or emotion in your choreography.
And Aisha asked, "How do you feel today?
" Do you feel happy?
Do you feel sad?
Do you feel angry?
Has anything bothered you today?
Is it feeling like a good day today?
Sam said that "I feel quite tired today because I went to bed late last night.
" So, you might feel like Sam, you might not have got enough sleep, so feel quite tired.
So, consider how you feel today.
Okay, let's have a go to quick check of reflecting on our feelings.
Can you think of a time that you felt nervous and maybe write down or just think about when it was and why it was.
You might have said, before a big test, before competing in a competition, or perhaps before doing something new.
So, those are all times when you might have felt nervous because we all tend to feel nervous at some point in our life.
So, these are all examples of times when you may have felt nervous, you might have thought of a different time when you felt nervous and that's okay.
But if we were trying to portray a feeling of nervous, we might draw upon that feeling that we felt at that time.
So, before choreographing a sequence to represent a feeling, it may be worth writing down a time when you felt a particular feeling.
"For example, feeling nervous.
So, I remember standing outside the classroom, my hands slightly shaking even though I tried to hide it.
My stomach felt tight like it was twisting itself into knots and every sound around me suddenly felt louder.
Footsteps, chatter, even a rustle of paper.
I kept going over everything I had revised, but the more I thought, the more my mind jumped around.
My breathing felt shallow and it was like my body couldn't decide whether it wanted to move or freeze.
That moment was a mix of fear and hope or battling inside me at once.
" And this is an example of when this person felt nervous, probably before an exam because they weren't sure the revision that they'd done they had revised, but their mind was toing and froing on other things as well.
And everything around them felt very loud and their breathing felt shallow and they didn't know whether to move or freeze.
So, that was a time that they've written down and they've reflected upon feeling nervous.
You then can highlight different words or sentences that help come up with choreography to express that feeling.
So, for example, "My stomach felt tight like it was twisting itself into knots" could be represented by, a sharp contraction of the torso followed by a slow spiraling release, a ripple through the spine, tightens in the center before unwinding again.
A twisting turn initiated from the core, traveling through the body.
A spiral pathway of the arms drawing inwards towards the stomach, then freezing in tension.
A small tight spin that closes the body shape like pulling yourself into a knot.
So, again, it doesn't have to be literally the stomach turning in knots, but how can your body, how can a movement that your body does represent these words?
So, now it might be useful to highlight the different words in your sentences that could help you come up with some really interesting choreography to express that feeling.
Now, it doesn't have to be nervousness, it could be another feeling too.
But this is a really good strategy on how you can draw out the emotion from your writing or from the feelings that you've felt before.
So, here's another example from the passage that we saw earlier.
The more I thought the more my mind jumped around could be represented by, quick, jittery movements of the head or eyes, darting in different directions.
Sharp, small hops or skips across the floor to show mental restlessness.
Rapid changes of direction in footwork or travel movements, flicking or snapping in the arm and hand gestures, moving unpredictability.
And spiraling turns or spin that changed direction suddenly.
So, again, there's five examples there of how that sentence could be represented by movements of our body.
Okay, let's have a quick check then.
How could you link your feelings to actions?
Would it be A, by doing random movements without thinking about the feeling?
Would it be B, by choosing movements and gestures that express how you feel?
Would it be C, by copying someone else's dance exactly?
What do you think?
Well, then if you said B, by choosing movements and gestures that express how you feel.
Okay, now it's time for the second part of the task of today's lesson.
So, you're going to select an emotion that you had previously felt.
Think about when it happened, what was happening around you and how your body felt at the time.
Write down a short description of that experience.
Use your description to help you create a short dance sequence that shows that feeling.
Think about the types of movements, gestures, levels, and directions that could express your emotion.
Consider how your facial expression focus and body tension can make that feeling clear to an audience.
You can also choose music that matches the mood of your emotion.
There is a video next to show you an example of a choreographed sequence to express a feeling.
You may wish to watch the video then pause so that you are able to complete Task B.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed completing Task B, so let's reflect on our task.
Move, improvising requires adaptation to move the body freely to reflect different emotions.
And Aisha said that "I adapted my body to perform actions that reflect in my emotion," did you?
I bet you did.
Whichever emotion you picked, I bet you used actions that reflected that emotion.
Think, using improvisation requires you to think about how your choices of movement communicate specific feelings.
And Sam said that "I thought carefully about my choices of actions to communicate specific emotions.
" And I bet you did too.
Feel, expressing emotions through dance requires confidence and awareness of your feelings.
And Aisha said that "I showed confidence to perform actions, having awareness of my own feelings.
" Did you?
Did you have confidence to perform your actions?
Were you able to perform your entire choreography confidently?
Did you maybe repeat it to gain more performance skills and more expression as you repeated it and practiced it more?
Connect, drawing on your own experiences allows your performance to feel meaningful and engaging.
And Sam said that "I use my experience of feeling different emotions to link to the choreography I created.
" Again, if you'd written down that small passage, sort of really reflecting on how you felt at a certain time, that will make it really meaningful, your routine really meaningful because you'll have picked out certain words or phrases that you've really demonstrated with your dance actions.
So, well done if you've done that.
Okay, we are nearly at the end of today's lesson, but before we do, we need to cool down our bodies.
So, what I'd like you to do for today's call down is move around the space to the music.
Every 30 seconds, change the song and improvise new movements that are linked to the music.
Keep repeating is for eight rounds.
And while you're doing it, I would 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 next lesson to practice your skills further?
You might want to pause the video now to give yourself time to complete the cool down.
And finally, we've got enough time just to summarize today's key learning points.
So, move, improvising requires adaptation to move the body freely to reflect different emotions.
Think, using improvisation requires you to think about your choices of movement and how they communicate specifically to different feelings.
Feel, expressing emotions through dance requires confidence and awareness of your feelings.
And finally, connect, drawing on your own experience allows your performance to feel meaningful and engaging.
So, well done if you met all of today's key learning points.
I really enjoyed being your teacher today, and I hope you've enjoyed the lesson and really improvising and working hard towards demonstrating those different emotions through your dance work.
I look forward to seeing you again soon.