Dance Ideas/Themes Warm Up Activities Follow my leader Steal the shoe Mark and hide – Stay close to friend, hide from enemy. Command style Isolations Creative warm up – circle, counter balance, weight bearing movement. Traffic lights Mirror shapes Discovery – Travel on 2 feet, 1 foot, 1 foot 1 hand, no feet or hands etc. Timing warm up – 8-4-2-1 arms up, to the side, down, circular run, repeat. Mental and physical warm up – arms and feet not to point in the same direction. Team travel – pupils crawl, walk, and curl through the body shapes held by team members in a line. Lunges – mental jigsaw. Peripheral Vision – Travel in straight and curves, with arms out at right angles. 3 Points – 1, heel 2, left heel 3 coccyx. Change the space between the 3 points. Ideas African Tribal Dance Search - Hunt – Celebrate Street Dance Sharp movement followed by moments of stillness Body Shapes Circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, spirals etc Triangle flow Unison project Brothers ‘Shake your tail feather’ World cup dance Football Celebrations Extreme Sports Freeze Frames – Transitions (Chemical Brothers) Lyrics Songs, poetry etc Nightmare Imprisonment – Escape - Capture (Nightmare – Brainbug) Contemporary Rushing (Moby) Graffiti (Lemon Jelly) Skateboarding (Red Snapper) Suspension (Moloko) Pop Toxic Britney Spears Street Dance DVD’s Gestures Pedestrian movement – Everyday gestures Break Dance King of the beats CD dance Flesh and Blood Lea Anderson – The first 1min 30 sec’s Cross Channel Lea Anderson – Featherstonehaughs accommodation scene Swan Song Christopher Bruce – The use of props 2003/4 Set Study AQA 2005/6 Set Study AQA 2007/8 Set Study AQA Music / Accompaniment suggestions Lemon Jelly Daft Punk Moby Mission Impossible Soundtrack St Germain Props/ useful stimuli Mobile Phone Car keys A red Bib / top Hoop
Main Teaching Points / Differentiation Organisation / Resources Introduction – Through movement we can communicate ideas and feelings E.g. – Happy / Sad. Warm up – Discovery travel Traffic lights Discuss why we warm up. List any extreme sports on the flip / board In pairs choose two extreme sports and make a freeze frame of them. Join two pairs together to make a group of four. Ask each pair to demonstrate their freeze frames to the other. Each group of four should create 4 freeze frames. Demonstrate to the pupils a happy walk and a sad walk. Ask them to explain the difference. Travel on; Two feet One foot, two hands No hands or feet Green = jogging around the room in any direction Amber = Walking in time with the music Red = stop The teacher can then set a challenge. Get pupils into small groups and ask them to spell words using their bodies (ie) in groups of 4 spell ‘BOLD’ Sky Diving, Bungy Jumping, Snow Boarding, White Water Rafting, Surfing etc. The teacher should try to guess what sport the pupils are trying to communicate. Pupils should exaggerate movements Pupils sit facing the teacher. Pupils use all the Pupils sit in of board / flip chart. Ensure that pupils are spread out and not too close to walls or chairs etc. CD Player CD – Chemical brothers – Block Rockin Beat. Sit pupils down where they are.
Using music, ask pupils to perform freeze frame 1,2,3&4 one after the other without talking. Discuss what would make the performance better. Introduce the word ‘transition’ or ‘link’. Tell the pupils to use a variety of travelling movements (some from the warm up) in order to link their freeze frames together. Perform and Appreciate Insist that it is a performance and there is to be no talking . All pupils will be walking or shuffling into their next freeze-frame. It will look messy and un choreographed. Twisting Turning Jumping Rolling Performance Rules No talking or giggling Hold the finish position until everyone has finished Positive feedback and constructive criticism can be used Split the class into two groups. One group performs, the other observes. Then change over. Always give the audience and opportunity to comment on what they have seen. EXTENSION – question the pupils why? / Promote key words. EXTENTION – analysis Sit pupils against one side of the room. Ensure that they are sat upright and not leaning against anything. This is to increase their strength and posture.