KS3 · Physical education · Year 9
A certain style: style features
Dance: the challenge
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can apply a range of style features to adapt my work.
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A certain style: style features: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can apply a range of style features to adapt my work.
Key learning points
- Move: accurately identifying and applying style features enables choreography to represent other times or places.
- Move: identifying and applying the necessary expressive and physical skills improves the overall performance.
- Think: identifying style features involves evaluating the different qualities of various dance styles.
- Feel: reproducing style features requires integrity to ensure authenticity.
- Connect: making changes to a motif involves discussion, planning and cooperation.
Words to know
- style features
- distinguishing traits or characteristics
- expressive skill
- performance qualities made up of musicality, focus, projection, extension, facial expression
- physical skill
- technical qualities made up of balance, control, coordination, strength, stamina, flexibility, placement, alignment and posture
Common mistakes
It is acceptable to copy the work of others in dance.
Copying the work of others and passing it off as your own is known as plagiarism. However, identifying features that are common to a dance style and applying it to your choreography is different, but should remain respectful to the original source.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Access clips of different dance styles to illustrate their variety and demonstrate different features.