Independent Project Work

Subject Dance

Year group 7, 8 and 9

Recall and consolidation activities

1. Watch the professional performances and complete the tasks linked to each video.

Project based learning tasks

Project title How can aspects of a production enhance a performance? 1. Watch the following performance of ’s choreography for the show Shaping Sound and answer this question: How did they use lighting and sound to enhance their performance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elB6sG-z0ug

2. Watch the following performance of Mia Michaels choreography for So You Think You Can Dance and answer this question: Discuss how the dancers use of timing, unison and canon improved their performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej771Oa9oWk

3. Watch the following performance from Dancing with the Stars and answer this question: Project tasks How did the group take a film as inspiration for a stimulus to create a dance piece to tell a story and how do they achieve this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zuLFzQJnH8

4. Watch the following performance of Brothers in Dance for The Greatest Dancer and answer this question: How did the group successfully incorporate the use of a prop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_eAKwyIkJ0

5. Watch the following performance of the Jellicle Ball from Cats the musical by the choreographer Gillian Lynne and write a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiaGOdHU7dk Submit your work to your teacher (Miss Howes and Miss Pell) through Submission details SMHW, via the department email [email protected] or a hand- written version to them in your first lesson when we return.