A Healthy Menu
Students discuss the dietary requirements of an adolescent. Play food group bingo.
Teaching Activities
Accent
Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.
Angles
Students learn about camera angles and trial them using phone cameras and other media equipment.
Background to the Fouette
In one of four groups: historians, researchers, illustrators and tutors, students research and teach a fouette.
Characters in Dance
Students explore characterization and learn to generate motifs.
Costume
Students create costume designs for their cygnet dance.
Cultural Dances
Students discuss cultural dance styles and individual heritages. Plan and teach a cultural dance.
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 Boot Camp
Students design and promote a free dance bootcamp.
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.
Lighting
Students develop a lighting plan and then attempt to realise it via low tech lighting found in and around the school.
Making New Work
Students learn a range of contemporary dance movements and phrases.
On Tour
Students role play interviewer and artist on tour. Students create a poster advertising an upcoming tour.
Performance Costs
Students plan for a performance and create a budget for it.
Pre-performance Nerves
Students identify the symptoms for this kind of stress; learn what causes it and how to manage anxiety related to performing.
Rivalry
Exploring what friendly rivalry means, students perform and dance battle in a hip hop style.
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.
Shakespeare in Dance
Students research a choreographed work inspired by a Shakespeare play.
Styles of Dance
Students warm up and learn a dance from the Dance Academy website tutorials.
The Hip Hop Story
Students learn about the history of hip hop and based on freezes and poses create a simple hip hop phrase.
Time Calls
Students consider pre-performance processes and relate to time calls.
Turning Basics
Students learn some of the basic skills needed for successful turns.
Turning Snapshots
Students review a variety of turns and construct a visual collage of turns.
Turning with a Partner
Students try a few rock’n’roll moves and create a photo wall of fame.
Unity
Students experience a range of activities and create a dance to be performed in unison. Feedback by peer review.