Dance: can you use body language to express your emotions?
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can adapt a dance phrase to express different emotions.
Key learning points
- Move: changing the dance phrases with speed and gestures can show different emotions.
- Think: considering how speed can express different feelings.
- Feel: successful portrayal of emotions requires practice and self-evaluation.
- Connect: link to different emotions you have felt at different times.
Keywords
Emotions - a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events - these can be positive or negative
Expressive skill - performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension, facial expression
Dynamics - the speed and force of an action
Common misconception
Big movements are always better.
Sometimes more subtle, small emotions can be expressive in how they portray emotions.
Equipment
Optional choice of music
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which is not an emotion?
Q2.How could you express an action with more energy?
Q3.Which best describes dynamics?
Q4.How might you know from someone's facial expression that they are happy?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which is not an expressive skill performance quality?
Q2.Which is not an example of how to change the dynamics of a performance?
Q3.What type of musicality would be most suited to portray an angry emotion?
Q4.Which gesture could portray boredom the best?
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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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