Geology: performance skills
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can apply expressive skills to improve my performance.
Key learning points
- Move: including where a dancer is looking improves accuracy in projection.
- Think: imagination is used to appreciate how an action appears to an audience.
- Feel: working collaboratively requires self-belief and trust in your group members.
- 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.
Teacher tip
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.
Equipment
Suggested music
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does ‘collaboration’ mean?
Q2.What do we call shapes or actions that harmonise and enhance the other?
Q3.How can ‘dormancy’ be represented in dance?
Q4.What does ‘accurate placement’ refer to?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.In dance, what is ‘accompaniment’?
Q2.In dance, what does ‘focus’ refer to?
Q3.To make an action appear bigger, where should we focus?
Q4.In dance, what is lengthening our bodies to perform an action to its fullest called?
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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