Benefits of Dance
Students construct a poster advertising the benefits of dance to a target group.
Teaching Activities
Competing for a Place
Students discuss intimidating behaviours, practice positive self talk.
Dealing with Stress
Students discuss a stressful situation, create a slogan, vote for slogan, create a campaign, pitch the campaign to a panel of experts.
Feedback
Students discuss the giving and receiving of notes for improvement of group and individual performances, learn a dance and practice giving each other notes.
Perfectionism
Students discuss perfectionist traits, self talk for perfectionists and positive self talk alternatives.
Pre-performance Nerves
Students identify the symptoms for this kind of stress; learn what causes it and how to manage anxiety related to performing.
Results
Students discuss one character’s results failure and write an internal dialogue for her.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
The Perfect Couple
Students discuss the ideals of the perfect couple, the pressures this puts on young people, consider their own ideals and write an ad for a dating agency.