KS3 · Physical education · Year 9
Look here: focus and emphasis
Dance: the challenge
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Your learning goal
I can use the expressive skills of focus and emphasis effectively.
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What you’ll learn
I can use the expressive skills of focus and emphasis effectively.
Key learning points
- Move: effective use of expressive skills communicates the dance ideas clearly.
- Think: projecting ideas effectively requires evaluating the application of expressive skills.
- Feel: the precise use of focus can communicate the mood of feeling of a performance.
- Connect: cooperating with others is necessary to produce coherent group work.
Words to know
- focus
- where a performer is looking
- emphasis
- to highlight a shape, action or performer(s)
- design features
- other elements in a performance, e.g. lighting or costume
Common mistakes
Performers should always look straight ahead and project to their audience.
In many styles, the connection to the audience is an important part of the performance. This can also be achieved by including a change of focus to communicate the performer's mood or intention, or to indicate what the audience should be looking at.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Illustrating emphasis with your voice by including dramatic pauses (stillness), change of volume (size), change of pace (dynamics) can enable pupils to appreciate the effect upon an audience.