6 Weeks Year 8 Dance relationship SOL SOL Intention: Students will develop an understanding of the different aspects of DANCE RELATIONSHIPS through teacher led activities. Students will then develop, explore and challenge these ideas to create short movement phrases. To be used towards contemporary day dance workshop in Arts weeks DANCE RELATIONSHIPS: Mirroring Lead and Follow Action/reaction Complementary Contrast Counter Point Canon Unison Contact Warm up; safety and rules on contact work and working with others Movement phrases to develop student’s movement memory (warm up phrases) Introduction to relationship; definition and examples, explore relationship Students experiment, create and develop dance relationship Lesson 1: introduction to dance relationships Mirroring – Simple tasks follow me Students to follow teachers actions as if looking at their own reflections, develop accuracy in the movements, develop challenge by using different levels, rotation and distance and near. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5FSC9SVyiM&t=25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ06LGdhqIU Task: Improvise with a partner, each taking turns to lead, then create a motif/Phrase using mirroring technique. (inspire learners with a theme; Through the looking glass, My future self, Reflections) Lesson 2: Lead and Follow Development from Mirroring; movements follow a lead, or initiation, touch points. Task: One leader uses a finger to guide partners movements, change the body parts the partner has to follow with, experiment with levels, travelling and rotations, do near and far, play with speeds and timings. Examples follow the leader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPds1qkw4z8 1.54sec in Lesson 3: Action/reaction Explore the concept of how an action can create a reaction within your partner, and explore into touch points, one leader will pull, tap, push parts of their partners body and they will improvise where that movement should go, responding to your partners touch. Example of action reaction in stage fighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMLs3sek6Q Lesson 4: Complementary, Contrast, Counterpoint Introduction to each element, what it looks like and how to create it. Complementary. Perform actions or shapes that are similar to but not exactly the same as another dancer's Contrast. A choreographic device where dance elements are altered to create. oppositions, thus making contrasts such as high/low, big/little. Counterpoint. When dancers perform different phrases simultaneously. Task: Give students examples of each element, using photo of shapes for complementary and contrast. Example of counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7V8tNuXuvY Lesson 5: Unison and Canon Reinforce students prior knowledge of Canon and unison. Example: Unison and canon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcshIKDpAtc Task: students to create a motif and explore different types of canon Reverting Canon - Dancers begin individually at the same point in a movement phrase Simple Canon - Each dancer dances an entire motif then keeps still while another dancer takes over. Dancers timings can overlap. Requires awareness of other dancers. Cumulative Canon - Each dancer joins in with the lead dancer at various stages and all finish at the same time. Loose Canon - Manipulation of the motif. Use of different levels, facings, or space. Lesson 6: Contact work, lifts, trust falls, support. Discuss rules for lifting and working with others Introduce students to some basic concepts of contact work, lifts, support and trust. Give some examples of each Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvDvWgowjww&t=471s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mXhW7TXQ8&t=306s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6miPqg8H-Xc
