Year 6 Performing Arts
Term 4, Week 1
Welcome Back!
Hi everyone, I hope you have all had a lovely, well-earned holiday.
I am so excited to see you all back at school next week!
This Term, we are going to be learning about Choreography (creating dances).
We will be creating a dance that I hope to use for your graduation!
Today, we will be learning the most important understandings about choreography so that we can work towards creating our own dance.
Understanding #1: Patterns in Dance
Most dances repeat actions in a pattern - this makes the dance easier to learn and more predictable for the audience (the audience likes to feel clever!)
Usually dances are created using counts of 4 or 8 beats
Watch the YouTube video to watch for patterns of actions that repeat
See if you can join in some of the dance - can you figure out what comes next because of the patterns?
Understanding #2: Hints or actions to match the lyrics (words in the song)
Watch all three of these videos to see the progression from very literal actions to the lyrics, to a dance that has just a few hints.
Very literal: lots of actions to match the lyrics
Some references to the lyrics
Just a few hints of the lyrics - can you spot them?
Understanding #3: Contrast
Contrast - keeping things interesting
The best dances have contrasts in the choreography, to keep the audience interested. Some of these contrasts might be:
HIGH and LOW movements
LITTLE and BIG movements
JOLTY and SMOOTH movements
FAST and SLOW movements
What contrast or opposites can you see in this dance? List at least 5.