Basic Salsa
Students observe, experience and notate basic salsa moves.
Teaching Activities
Cultural Dances
Students discuss cultural dance styles and individual heritages. Plan and teach a cultural dance.
Cygnet Dance
Students create a cygnet dance in the style of line dancing. Rate selves using activity sheet.
Dance Access
Students learn about dance for people of all abilities, watch some clips of companies that specialise in this field and discuss movements seen.
Dance Video
Students discuss framing and editing, plan camera angles for a dance shoot
Dance without Music
Students develop a dance duet without music by utilising sounds in their immediate environment.
Duets
Students prepare a one-minute routine with props.
Dynamics
Students learn about dynamics and apply these to a learnt phrase.
Effort Actions
Students engage in two structured improvisations and create a short phrase based on effort actions.
Family Traditions
Students consider family traditions and create a movement phrase based on action words.
Floor Dance
Students create a floor phrase where they do not use their hands or stand on their feet.
Force and Flow
Students play two games that explore differences in effort levels when applying force and flow in dance.
Free Form
Students participate in a number of small activities leading to hip hop free form (improvisation).
Graffiti Dance
Students find examples of graffiti and create a phrase based on graffiti images.
Haka
Students create their own Haka.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
Students create a feel good dance. Reflect on their feelings before and after.
Improvisation
Students attempt to expand their solo ideas through improvisation techniques.
In-situ Dance
Students watch examples of site specific work and generate movement response to alternative locations.
Jump for Your Life
Students create a jumping phrase and consider musical implications for different jump speeds.
Jump Safety
Students learn about safe dance practice in relation to jumps.
Jump Thrill
Students explore a range of jumps and observe some jump styles from the internet.
Learning a Skill
Students consider the communication skills necessary to teach specific skills.
Music for Dance
Students learn some movements from the clip, arrange these in an order that they prefer and perform the dance to a range of musical scores.
One Minute Solo
Students collaborate in pairs as choreographer and dancer to develop a dance solo.
Pointe Shoes
Students describe footwear for dance, history of the point shoe and experience a range of feet and calf strengthening exercises, keeping a record.
Safe Dance Spaces
Students learn what constitutes a safe dance space and carry out a check.
Safe Stretching
Students learn how, when and why to stretch and create a poster demonstrating understanding of the theory.
Salsa – Experimenting with Form
Students improvise with the basic salsa steps.
Salsa – Take the Lead
Students learn one salsa dance and then swap leading roles.
Scheherazade
Students learn about the influence of the Ballet Russes, hear the story of Scheherazade and design a costume for one of the characters.
Space – Body Shape
Body shape is explored through improvisation of shapes – call and response method with reflective activity.
Space – Spatial Organisation
Students choreograph pathways in space using their initials as impetus.
Sporty Dance
Students select movement from three different sports and create a dance.
Storyboarding
Students create a dance, photograph or draw it and arrange as a storyboard. Extension activity rearranging the elements.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
Styles of Dance
Students warm up and learn a dance from the Dance Academy website tutorials.
The Foot as a Tool
Students learn about range of motion in the foot and ankle and explore personal range of motion.
The Hip Hop Story
Students learn about the history of hip hop and based on freezes and poses create a simple hip hop phrase.
The Pulse
Students learn to hear and perform to the beat.
Trust
Students experience a range of trust activities and rate their levels of trust.
Unity
Students experience a range of activities and create a dance to be performed in unison. Feedback by peer review.