I have been teaching Performing Arts for over 10 years and I have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with you.
Most recently I was teaching in Bangkok, prior to this I was The Director of Theatrical Productions in Amman, Jordan for 2 years. Before this I was Head of Dance in a school in the UK for 4 years.
I hope you find my resources helpful and if you do please leave a review. There are a mixture of Dance, Healthy living and PSHE resources for a range of ages and curriculum.
I have been teaching Performing Arts for over 10 years and I have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with you.
Most recently I was teaching in Bangkok, prior to this I was The Director of Theatrical Productions in Amman, Jordan for 2 years. Before this I was Head of Dance in a school in the UK for 4 years.
I hope you find my resources helpful and if you do please leave a review. There are a mixture of Dance, Healthy living and PSHE resources for a range of ages and curriculum.
Attached is two full lessons for online learning KS3 Dance.
Lesson 1: using a stimulus to describe a dance idea and 3 motif ideas
Lesson 2: Creating these motifs and developing Actions, Space and Dynamics
At the end of the ppt are suggestions to take this into a full 6 week lesson SOW
Suitable for A level Dance Students or Btec Level 3 Dance students studying Jerome Robbins.
Bundle includes 3 of my resources also sold separately:
Robbins - Comparison of professional works
Robbins - Stylistic Features
West Side Story - Character details
SUBJECT: Dance KS2/ 3
In this pack you will find 3 resources:
SOW suitable for KS2 and 3 dance (year 6/7) based on the idea of Heroes and Villains. This is a great scheme for keeping boys engages and easily adapted to suit in person and online teaching.
Two full lesson PPT: Describing a dance idea from a stimulus (all theory/ written) and then creating a solo motif and developing it. If you are using flipgrid or google classroom these can be filmed by the students and sent to you.
This pack contains a 6 week SOW plan exploring African style movement and choreography skills. In addition is a peer assessment resource and a self review module sheet for the end of the unit. Students will explore the basics of this style and create duets and group dances. Youtube links are provided so even a dance teacher less confident with this style can still deliver this.
In this bundle you will find several resources that mix practical and theory for KS3.
Online written activity for critical appreciation (you choose the work to watch, so can be used multiple times)
A booklet of non practical participant tasks - I created this for injured students and with SEN students in mind that struggled to access the practical work. The tasks allow students to meet your learning objectives and use the language of dance to write about your lesson.
The KS3 written task in a KS3 friendly GCSE style exam. You can use the whole thing or parts for cover work or classwork
“Improving elevation” a lesson written for KS4 when my students were struggling to really get off the floor when they jumped
Kinesphere lesson: single lesson that can be taught online or in person
Creating a solo: two lessons that can be taught online or in person
Flamenco: 3 lessons introducing this style to KS3, the first two of which are teachable online.
If you find these to be as useful as I have in using them with my students, do leave a review.
This complete PPT lesson provides a detailed overview of the structure of a ballet class. It is designed for a teacher who already teaches ballet, there are no instructional videos.
The PPT allows students to understand and follow the structure of a ballet class with a focus on developing skills for pirouettes. This PPT can be used for a full 6 weeks with the teacher building lesson on lesson with new exercises to fit the laid out structure of class.
In this workshop lesson your students will explore codified actions that we all use and how this idea has been used in ballets to aid the storytelling.
Task include:
Watching excerpts from Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa
Creating your own mimed conversation with emphasis on dance terminology like actions and dynamics
Performing to peers and appreciating each others ideas
Reflecting and improving your work through rehearsal
Reflecting and reviewing an a section of Sleeping Beauty to demonstrate critical appreciation skills
This lesson has teacher guidance on some slides for non-specialists and has a strong drama element to it as well.
In this bundle you have 6 lessons exploring the production feaures of Infra:
Costume x 2
Lighting
Set/ Staging.
Aural Setting x2
Students are guided through tasks to help them understands how to reach the top marks for 6 and 12 mark questions for section C of the GCSE written paper.
This ppt follows on from “Analysis of choreographic content - Artificial Things” and continues to break down the choreographic devices, relationships and key movement phrases in the focus sections (Dave and Laura’s Duet, Tumbling and Gliding).
This resources is designed for students to edit together so I have used it in google slides to achieve this, however you can adapt this should that not be an option for you. The collaborative nature of the lesson allows for students to explore the set work as a team in order to build a response to 6/12 mark questions.
12 mark “Comparison Question” based on A Linha Curva and Emancipation of Expressionism
This is two part lesson (one hour each) that will guide your students through writing their 12 mark essays. In lesson one as a class you construct the best possible essay based on comparing costumes in these two works. In lesson two your students are challenged with choosing another feature to compare.
You will need to adapt according to your students ability, this may take 3 lessons for some.
Subject: A Level Dance AQA
Area of Study: Jazz Dance
The resource provides an overview of 4 of his works (videos available on youtube) and resouce for students to complete as you deliver the information provided and watch excerpts of each piece. The works discussed are:
Fancy Free
Call Me Madam
Shall We Dance
The Cage
This is single lesson on improving your jumping in dance. It can be used for both BTEC Performing arts dance and GCSE Dance
I created this because my students were struggling to really “get off the floor” so we spent one lesson really focused on it.
Subject: A Level Dance
Area: Essay style questions
In this bundle you will find 12 essay style questions mark sheets for your students. I asked my students to always attach the sheet to the front of their work.
It allows you to mark essays consistently and provided feedback linked to the criteria.
Subject: Dance
Level: GCSE / BTEC ballet unit/ A Level
In this resource you will find 7 detailed theory lessons (based on 2 hour lessons):
French courts (Paris 1582 – 1641)
2)18th Century developments including, Carlo Blasis, Jean-Georges Noverre
19th Century Developments - Romantic era
1855 - 1817 - Imperial Russia
Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe
Ballet in Britain
Britain vs America
Two resources mentioned in PPT: Article on British vs American style and methods of training
SUBJECT: Dance KS2 or 3
Suitable for PE lessons on Dance
This single lesson is a great way to explore the concept of “kinesphere” in dance
Suitable for year 6 and 7 students will explore space to create their own motifs.
Teacher must create for themself an 8 count phrases to teach as part of the lesson making use of a range of small and large actions for students to develop. It should be simple enough to pick up quickly
Subject: Dance
Topic: Booklet for non- participant/ SEN student to access the class
I designed this PPT booklet for a SEN student that struggled to access the class and would sometimes remove himself from practical learning. This resource was a great way for him to show his understanding and still participate. We used it to allow him the opiton of practical or theory each lesson and it worked really well. I hope you can also use it.
I have created a reusable resource that requires only you to choose a dance work to watch. It asks GCSE style questions aimed at KS3. All your students need are a link to watch any work you choose and this resource.
This sequence of PPTS was written for my year 13s.
It is a long project and is adaptable for younger students (8-12 weeks)
It lays out what unit 6 is and starts their investigation. Students will research and practically explore the dance idea “Human Rights”. This can be used as intended or adapted for other groups who want to explore this topic
It includes several teacher led choreographic tasks and leads students to develop and deliver their own workshop lesson to the class based on their research.
From each workshop, as the teacher, you then facilitate the rehearsal process to produce their pieces for final performance. When I did this my class of 12 produced a 50min production.
As part of the project you also explore Ghost Dances and the work of Christopher Bruce.
This resource will provides links to watch the “So You Think You Can Dance Season 8 Final Show performance of dancers Matt Flint ( UK season 2 winner ) with Jess and Nick.
Your students will also watch “Stomp” and answers questions independently.
I have used this online by uploading to google classroom so I can see them work live on their document.
With the run up to the Olympics this was a a really fun session. It is for a double period and the resources I have added are based specificaly around Australia.
This could easily be adapted to also suit KS2.
I have provided the task briefs that I used but again these could be adapted to suit your students.
Have fun, we did and we also created some excellent work for display!
