Year 8 · Physical education · beta
Dance: crossing continents
The unit explores a stylistic approach that outlines the different application of Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to four contrasting but inter-related dance styles enabling the learners to draw comparisons and consider why and how wider societal factors affected their evolution.
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Prior knowledge
- Pupils can manipulate movement to create and vary motifs and formulate them into a dance.
- Pupils can identify and apply stylistic features and offer reasons for their presence.
- Pupils can reflect upon the various functions of art and their evolution.
- Pupils can synthesise a wide range of physical skills.
- Pupils can identify a selection of methods regarding how they might develop a motif and justify their choices.
Source curriculum references
- Build on and embed the physical development.
- Become more competent.
- Become more confident.
- Understand what makes a performance effective and how to apply principles to own and others' work.
- Interest in getting involved in exercise, sports and activities out of school and in later life.
- Develop technique and improve performance.
- Perform dances using advanced techniques in a range of dance styles and forms.
- Build on trust.
- Analyse and improve performances compared to previous ones.
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