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Year 10

Geology: performance skills

I can apply expressive skills to improve my performance.

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Year 10

Geology: performance skills

I can apply expressive skills to improve my performance.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Move: including where a dancer is looking improves accuracy in projection.
  2. Think: imagination is used to appreciate how an action appears to an audience.
  3. Feel: working collaboratively requires self-belief and trust in your group members.
  4. Connect: working with other design features, e.g. the accompaniment involves cooperation.

Keywords

  • Focus - where a performer is looking

  • Extension - lengthening through the body

  • Projection - communicating the dance idea

Common misconception

Dancers should be moving all the time.

Stillness is one of the five basic actions. Similar to punctuation in a sentence, it can help to bring meaning and context as well as highlight important moments. Stillness can include brief pauses as well as prolonged periods of inactivity.


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To emphasise something increasing in size pupils should aim to combine their use of extension and focus, e.g. looking in the same direction of an outstretched arm will make the action appear bigger/longer.
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Equipment

Suggested music

Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - physical activity

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Prior knowledge starter quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
What does ‘collaboration’ mean?
Correct answer: cooperating
competing
contrasting
Q2.
What do we call shapes or actions that harmonise and enhance the other?
contrasting
complimentary
Correct answer: complementary
Q3.
How can ‘dormancy’ be represented in dance?
turning
Correct answer: stillness
travelling
Q4.
What does ‘accurate placement’ refer to?
Correct answer: body position
location
musical timing

Assessment exit quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
In dance, what is ‘accompaniment’?
what we see
what we feel
Correct answer: what we hear
Q2.
In dance, what does ‘focus’ refer to?
Correct answer: where we look
where we travel
where we jump
Q3.
To make an action appear bigger, where should we focus?
down
to the side
Correct answer: upwards
Q4.
In dance, what is lengthening our bodies to perform an action to its fullest called?
expansion
Correct answer: extension
expedition

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