Dance update

Year 1 Dance :

Technical focus : contrasting textures in movement, contact, levels, turns, travelling pathways.

Curriculum Link : Traditional Tales

The curriculum link for this term was traditional tales with the classes exploring the different material used to build houses &  using contrasting movement dynamics, contact,  levels, turns & gestures to tell the story of the 3 Little Pigs.   

Exploring moving as light as material [or straw] and gently landing into the shape created

           

Year 2 Dance:

Technical focus : Creating still, strong shapes, balance, contrasting textures in movement.

Curriculum Link : Woodland creatures, literacy – writing key words.

After Christmas, we thought about our favorite types of chocolate and explored how we could use movement to describe them! Here is a group being observed for their ‘Aero’ chocolate ‘moving like bubbles’ exploration.

For our curriculum link, we watched a video of woodland creatures & explored how we could change levels, execute a variation of jumps, turns, gesture & stillness to move like those creatures. We also explored how we might move ‘over, under & around’ each other, like the creatures did in the video ! We were also very good at creating interesting shapes with levels & copying those shapes.

       

Year 3 Dance

Technical details : Repeating gesture patterns, canon, unison, travelling pathways, contact, levels, Hip-hop grooves

Also focus on increasing core conditioning &  cardio fitness as part of our warm up.

Year 3N have spent Spring 2 exploring basic hip hop grooves and will next term create its own class groove to show case for the summer term ! This activity included the task of creating a repeated pattern movement phrase to a count of 8 and to a section of the beat.

Focusing on our curriculum link of ‘The Titanic’ class 3N created a video explaining the difference between unison & canon using a motif inspired by giant cranes building the titanic.

 Year 3S had the opportunity to perform their titanic ship dance to their parents & guardians & demonstrated the use of canons, unison, gesture patterns, travelling pathways & contact.