Step Up Wexham

Year 9 Street Dance

Lesson 4 – Develop a Street Dance

Learning Outcomes

• To develop a street dance phrase by adding canon and changing the facings

• To link your original street dance phrase to your developed phrase focusing on fluency

• To observe a developed street dance phrase and provide constructive feedback as to how the phrase could be improved in relation to the fluency

In your Dance crews, you need to recap and link all of your dance phrases together from last lesson.

Person A – Teach phrasePerson B – Teach phrasePerson C – Teach phrasePerson D – Teach phrasePerson E – Teach phrase

You should now have a street dance which is between 20 and 40 counts long.

Development time - Canon

Now develop your street dance phrase by adding in canon from the start.

Dancer A starts 4 counts later Dancer B starts4 counts later Dancer C starts4 counts later Dancer D starts4 counts later Dancer E starts.

Development time - Facings

Now develop your street dance phrase by getting your dancers to face in different directions:

Observation TimeWatch another Dance crew perform the Street Dance Phrase.

Provide them with constructive feedback on their:

• Timing

• Accuracy

How did you get on?

• What was your fluency like?

• Did you manage to keep in time whilst developing the dance using canon?