KS3 · Physical education · Year 9

Move, don’t move: relationships and stillness

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Your learning goal

I can use stillness to add contrast.

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Move, don’t move: relationships and stillness: 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 stillness to add contrast.

Key learning points

Move: stillness requires the precise use of balance, strength and control.
Move: an aesthetic dance will include both physical and expressive skills.
Think: deciding when and how to apply stillness involves evaluating the effect from the audience’s perspective.
Feel: useful feedback is delivered with honesty and integrity.
Connect: making adjustments to choreography requires all performers to cooperate fully.

Words to know

stillness: the absence of motion
contrast: distinctly different
staging: how the audience are positioned for a performance

Common mistakes

The audience are always directly facing the stage/performers.

Whilst most theatres use an 'end on' arrangement, this isn't always the case. Fashion shows traditionally use a 'thrust' stage, lecture-demonstrations might use 'in the round' and performances such as Mummers' plays, may use 'promenade'.

For parents, carers and teachers

When sharing work during a lesson, it is often easier for less experienced pupils to move the location of the audience than ask the performers to reorientate their work.