Accent
Students create a phrase and alter it by changing accents.
Teaching Activities
Characters in Dance
Students explore characterization and learn to generate motifs.
Communication
In pairs, students create a phrase of music without the use of speech.
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.
In-situ Dance
Students watch examples of site specific work and generate movement response to alternative locations.
Kat’s Choreography
As a whole the class learns a sequence from Kat’s routine. They then create variations of this dance sequence.
One Minute Solo
Students collaborate in pairs as choreographer and dancer to develop a dance solo.
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.
The Pulse
Students learn to hear and perform to the beat.