Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles
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Why this why now
Pupils build on their prior learning of specific action content, alongside cross curricular links and cultural capital, progressing previous work on relationships. Clear movement language and stylistic features provide a framework from which pupils collaborate to create original dances, applying fundamental features of the selected style, developing their understanding of formations, motif development and stance. Pupils continue to respond to accompaniment. The content is typically energetic and so pupils develop stamina and strength alongside cooperation and team-work.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can identify stylistic features and use them as a stimuli for original work.
- Pupils can sustain performing a repeating pattern with accuracy of timing.
- Pupils can consider how geographic or historic features affect dance styles.
- Pupils can accurately recall and perform a motif that involves spatial variations.
- Pupils can identify a selection of methods regarding how they might develop a motif.
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Why this why now
Pupils build on their prior learning of specific action content, alongside cross curricular links and cultural capital, progressing previous work on relationships. Clear movement language and stylistic features provide a framework from which pupils collaborate to create original dances, applying fundamental features of the selected style, developing their understanding of formations, motif development and stance. Pupils continue to respond to accompaniment. The content is typically energetic and so pupils develop stamina and strength alongside cooperation and team-work.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can identify stylistic features and use them as a stimuli for original work.
- Pupils can sustain performing a repeating pattern with accuracy of timing.
- Pupils can consider how geographic or historic features affect dance styles.
- Pupils can accurately recall and perform a motif that involves spatial variations.
- Pupils can identify a selection of methods regarding how they might develop a motif.
Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles
A stylistic approach develops Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to study dances from other times and places reviewing how and why motifs are repeated and developed. Pupils develop an understanding of the impact of accompaniment, landscape and other design features on action content.
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