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.
