KS4 · Physical education · Year 10
Geology: performance skills
Dance: phenomenal
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can apply expressive skills to improve my performance.
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Geology: performance skills: 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 expressive skills to improve my performance.
Key learning points
- Move: including where a dancer is looking improves accuracy in projection.
- Think: imagination is used to appreciate how an action appears to an audience.
- Feel: working collaboratively requires self-belief and trust in your group members.
- Connect: working with other design features, e.g. the accompaniment involves cooperation.
Words to know
- focus
- where a performer is looking
- extension
- lengthening through the body
- projection
- communicating the dance idea
Common mistakes
Dancers should be moving all the time.
Stillness is one of the five basic actions. Similar to punctuation in a sentence, it can help to bring meaning and context as well as highlight important moments. Stillness can include brief pauses as well as prolonged periods of inactivity.
For parents, carers and teachers
- To emphasise something increasing in size pupils should aim to combine their use of extension and focus, e.g. looking in the same direction of an outstretched arm will make the action appear bigger/longer.