Glen Waverley Primary - Year 6 Performing Arts Term 4, Week 1

GWPS school song - I'm Still Standing

Year 6 Performing Arts

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.

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?

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.

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.

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