Dance: my world, how we dance
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Why this why now
Pupils are introduced to new actions through dances from other times and places. Applying subject knowledge as an analytical tool to encode and decode established vocabularies and support cultural appreciation. This develops musicality and relationship as well as developing coordination, sensitivity to others and projection skills. Collaborating in small groups, pupils discuss ideas; select, order or combine them; review success and consider refinements prior to sharing and observing work, offering further analysis.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can respond to a range of stimuli.
- Pupils can apply control and precision to a range of movements.
- Pupils can coordinate a range of body parts effectively with an aesthetic awareness.
- Pupils can respond accurately to a movement instruction.
- Pupils can name a wide range of movements with detail in their spatial or dynamic qualities.
- Pupils can link movements to create a motif.
Threads
Why this why now
Pupils are introduced to new actions through dances from other times and places. Applying subject knowledge as an analytical tool to encode and decode established vocabularies and support cultural appreciation. This develops musicality and relationship as well as developing coordination, sensitivity to others and projection skills. Collaborating in small groups, pupils discuss ideas; select, order or combine them; review success and consider refinements prior to sharing and observing work, offering further analysis.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can respond to a range of stimuli.
- Pupils can apply control and precision to a range of movements.
- Pupils can coordinate a range of body parts effectively with an aesthetic awareness.
- Pupils can respond accurately to a movement instruction.
- Pupils can name a wide range of movements with detail in their spatial or dynamic qualities.
- Pupils can link movements to create a motif.
Dance: my world, how we dance
A stylistic approach applies Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships in combination to cultural, historic and geographic factors. Pupils learn key features of different dance genres e.g. stance and formations as a stimulus for devising motifs and developing awareness of commonality between cultures.
6 lessons in unit
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