The following core task could provide a focus for pupils' activities in this unit.
Task
In groups, pupils organise and prepare for a dance show/performance in which everyone performs. The show could include one longer dance or a variety of shorter dances, performed in groups, pairs or as individuals.
Pupils should:
- apply choreographic principles with an awareness of the audience
- devise, implement and monitor a preparation programme, including technical work and physical conditioning to ensure the qualities of the dance
- organise the show/programme and make use of lighting, staging and costume where appropriate
- adapt their work for future performances
Adaptations and variations on the task
Motifs can be developed in a number of ways,
eg by varying the actions, use of body, spatial design, dynamics; retrogradation, fragmentation, the cutting and reintegration of material; variation of the order of motifs and number of dancers.
Pupils could:
- base the dance on a technical study from a selected extract of professional dance
- base the show on a theme
- perform in more than one dance
- use dances from different times and cultures
- ask pupils to observe other dances and to reconstruct them
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