KS1 · Physical education · Year 2
Salsa dance
Dance: my world, how we dance
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can perform a basic salsa step and work with a partner, performing the steps together.
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Salsa dance: 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 perform a basic salsa step and work with a partner, performing the steps together.
Key learning points
- Move: performing the actions for a basic Salsa step needs control and timing.
- Think: choosing actions to perform solo requires evaluation of my strengths.
- Feel: choreographing and rehearsing a duet with my partner needs clear communication and resilience.
- Connect: performing a duet successfully needs trust and communication to remember the actions in order.
Words to know
- partner
- the person you work with in a pair/duet
- solo
- working alone, a performance by one person
- choreograph
- creating a dance
Common mistakes
Dance styles such as Salsa or Ballet are 'proper' dancing.
All dance styles were created by someone, or a group, and develop e.g. pointe work in ballet was introduced in the 1820's/1830's. New styles are still being developed. All actions can be dance.
For parents, carers and teachers
- When learning the basic step and counting to 8 it can help to subsitute in a clap or simply omit saying the numbers 4 and 8, e.g. 1 2 3 _ 5 6 7 _