BTEC LEVEL 3 PERFORMING ARTS DANCE Task 1

BTEC LEVEL 3 PERFORMING ARTS (DANCE)

Task 1: Review • As a group we will go around each individual and discuss your chosen ideas. • As a class we will then decide which stimulus we will chose to create our choreography on.

Task 2: Mind Map • Create a mind map on your chosen stimulus. • When you think abut theme what does it make you think of? • What emotion/ feeling does it portray? • What movement ideas do you have? • What group ideas do you have? • What do you imagine the dance to look like e. g. dark, light, group, solos, unison etc.

Task 3: Summer homework part 1 • Create a solo which lasts 8 lots of 8 relating to your chosen stimulus. (You can pick a specific area that relates to the stimulus so your solo focuses on a key area or topic rather than a general theme. • You can create a solo which stays on the spot or that travels. • Think about using a variety of levels and dynamics. • There is no right or wrong with choreography but try and be as create as possible. • You will be asked to share your solo the first week back in September.

Task 4: Summer homework part 2 • Devise two choreography tasks based around your stimulus that you can set the group in order to generate material. • This could be a game, a set phrase taught and then developed. st All work is due in the 1 lesson back in September. • • • Examples to help you: Improvisation tasks Number games Spelling words Contact Travel tasks