Topic 3: Lesson Planning Dance and Drama

16th July 2018

The tutorial kicked off with a warm up activity

using tableau.

Warm up: 

In group, students create a tableau that describe the people. As each individual act are different each student name and describe their action.

Activity 1:

Students become a character in the picture. The audience guess who/what he/she is.

• Learn to view a photo, picture, paint

• Learn to imagine themselves (students) living those characters (in picture)

• Learn to express themselves through action/acting

Why reflection is important in Drama?

• Making sense of experience 

• Clarity and better comprehension of what affects our own performance and progress 

• Allows us to gain more control over emotions, feelings, responses and behaviour 

• Increased self-awareness about hidden motivations, thinking and reasoning

Dance

• Understanding how the body function and its limitation is critical in the teaching of dance

• (Unit content) 

- Safe dance principles that aid this understanding include: 

§ an awareness of how the body moves 

§ a knowledge of common dance injuries, their cause, prevention and treatment 

§ a knowledge of the nature and function of warm-up and technique exercises in preparing the body to dance.

Warm up activities of dance should:

- raise the pulse rate and body temperature, mobilise joints and warm muscles

- emphasise awareness of space and other members of the class

- incorporate whole-body activities

Tableau

A good tableau should have:
1. all students frozen
2. all students keeping a focal point (eyes should be looking purposefully, locked somewhere)
3. clear facial and body expression
4. a variety of body levels (high – standing, medium or middle – sitting or crouched, low – body close to the ground)

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