Dance: your tag, everyday art
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Why this why now
Pupils continue the ‘social’ thread, applying it to a contemporary context and reflecting on how communities communicate their values. Using visual art as a stimuli pupils translate images into actions, apply and justify appropriate choreographic relationships as a preparation for dance at KS3 and beyond. This unit further develops their understanding of the many purposes of dance whilst employing stylistic features, question and answer relationships and geometric shapes and formations alongside developing flexibility, strength and coordination.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use a visual stimuli to generate movement, create and vary motifs and formulate them into a dance.
- Pupils can identify and apply stylistic features.
- Pupils can reflect upon the various functions of art.
- Pupils can utilise a wide range of physical skills concurrently.
- Pupils can identify a selection of methods regarding how they might develop a motif.
Threads
Why this why now
Pupils continue the ‘social’ thread, applying it to a contemporary context and reflecting on how communities communicate their values. Using visual art as a stimuli pupils translate images into actions, apply and justify appropriate choreographic relationships as a preparation for dance at KS3 and beyond. This unit further develops their understanding of the many purposes of dance whilst employing stylistic features, question and answer relationships and geometric shapes and formations alongside developing flexibility, strength and coordination.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use a visual stimuli to generate movement, create and vary motifs and formulate them into a dance.
- Pupils can identify and apply stylistic features.
- Pupils can reflect upon the various functions of art.
- Pupils can utilise a wide range of physical skills concurrently.
- Pupils can identify a selection of methods regarding how they might develop a motif.
Dance: your tag, everyday art
A themed approach uses Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to react to controversial art forms. Looking at Basquiat and Banksy, pupils question if it is social comment, work of art or criminal act. Using analytical skills, infusing dance with Hip-hop influences that emerged alongside graffiti art.
12 lessons in unit
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