KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Lindy Hop: contact work in duets or groups
Dance: crossing continents
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Your learning goal
I can use contact work with a partner safely and successfully.
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Lindy Hop: contact work in duets or groups: 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 use contact work with a partner safely and successfully.
Key learning points
- Move: contact work establishes a clear relationship between the performers.
- Think: collaborating to perform partner work involves sustained concentration.
- Feel: applying self-discipline ensures safe working at all times.
- Connect: ensuring sufficient space and support during contact work demonstrates empathy.
Words to know
- interspersed
- scattered amongst; placed between
- duet
- a performance by two people working together
- contact
- physical connection, can include touch, support, lifts
Common mistakes
If supporting another person you should be as far away from them as possible.
To support another person effectively, the performers need to be in close proximity with the 'supporter' adopting a wide base and using the large muscle groups to power the action.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Ensure pupils are partnered with someone of a similar height and build. Also consider partnering them with people they are comfortable making physical contact with.