LESSON CONTENT: Emphasis on PARTNER WORK and BODY ACTIONS – GESTURES

Year 6/7 Using Wild Child Disc 1 to create a Dance titled: Going Out and Meeting Others

AIM: To TEACH COMPOSITION through use of a DANCE FRAMEWORK.

Warm-up: Travel anywhere and when you meet someone hold one or two hands, pull away

and turn on the spot

Composition: Exploration of ‘Greeting’ Movements - working in pairs

Explore further ideas and select a travel into a turning greeting movement

Explore clapping greeting ideas (e.g. hands clapping own knees, own hands

together, partners hands – right, left then both to create a 4 beat rhythmic

pattern). Explore range then select one –travel into clap motif.

Explore hugging idea (e.g. travel into hugging and turn into travel to back away)

Compose a sequence using all 3 ways of greeting.

Performance: Practice to link the movements and vary the rhythm.

Appreciation: Watch the short section Ready for Work on Disc 1 and ask the pupils to

describe:

· the gestures used and what they express

· how the phrase combines several ‘getting ready’ actions

· how the actions are performed in perfect unison

Composition: Mirror your partner to explore different dressing actions copying each action

and taking turns to lead.

Work on just taking one part of an action – e.g. downward pull of the hairbrush,

upward pull up of trousers, pull on of hat (abstracting) - link 4 actions together.

Work on rhythmic variation – slow motion one action to make a phrase.

Performance: Perfect the unison (watch the resource again for reference).

Using the music perform the ‘getting ready’ motif twice through.

Composition: Work on developments (e.g. changing levels, adding turns, jumps and

travelling) and select some ideas to develop the ‘getting ready’ motif.

Performance: SECTION I and SECTION II a) of the Dance.

Appreciation: Watch the section titled ‘Etiquette’ to see how the ‘Wild Child’ was made to

use a handshake instead of other greeting movements.

Composition: Use this idea by one partner interrupting the greetings motif and making

the other partner perform a handshake. This should be composed to form Section 2 b).

Performance: Practice the whole dance and decide on own ending.

Appreciation: Watch each other perform and appraise the unison, the development, rhythm,

the linking of movements and the expression.

DANCE FRAMEWORK

DANCE OUTCOME: Going Out and Meeting Others Music: Track 7:Wild Child

SECTION I in 2s:

a) Create sequence using everyday actions to ‘prepare for going out’ (in real size)

Motif in UNISON

b) Develop sequence making the movements much larger

Repetition + Development in UNISON

SECTION II

a) In 2s create travel into turning greeting motif, then into a clapping greeting motif and then a hugging one perform motifs twice

Motifs

b) Repeat these three motifs with but one of the partners makes the other perform a handshake after each greeting

Repetition +Contrast

END Decide on your own end.