Dance Performance

Friday 19th September

Physical Skills:
Posture - The position of the body or body parts, bad posture can lead to health problems.
Co-ordination - The ability to move different parts of your body together well or easily.
Extension - The act of straightening or extending a limb.
Balance - A state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight.
Strength - The quality or state of being physically strong.
Stamina - the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort.
Alignment - A straight line or in correct positions.
Flexibility - The quality of bending easily without breaking.

Interpretive Skills:
Musicality - In dance, musicality is the matching of movement and form to the rhythm, melody, and mood of the music being played.
Focus - To concentrate on a singe point. To connect or disconnect with the audience through the use of external and internal focus.
Projection - Confident presentation of one's body and energy to vividly communicate movement and meaning to an audience.
Facial Expression - Facial expressions are when you describe the emotions of a dance with your face.


In todays lesson, we ran through the routine and then added our own beggining section in the style of the video we watched. We then had the chance to change how we did the actual routine. In our group we had two people doing something different in the back whilst three of us carried on with the original routine.

Friday 26th September

Today we carried on with rehersing our routines and then we filmed them and recieved peer assesment. We then watched the film back and gave ourselves self assesment targets. My targets were to be more accurate and to be more confident. I found these targets helpful becuae it means that I know what to work harder on next time we perform.

Friday 3rd October.

In todays lesson we started to work on the marching sequence from the song at the end of scene one. Before we did this, we did some warm up that helped with moving in a dance like way.
As a class we learnt the dance. I found it quite tricky at first to coordinate my arms with my legs but after running through it a few times and working in smaller groups I managed to get the coordination.