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PEAdvanced technique22 min★★ difficulty

Advanced dance technique and styles

Different dance styles demand different bodies and different technique — a contemporary dancer and a street dancer train very differently.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Technique and performance: Perform dances using advanced dance techniques within a range of dance styles and forms

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Perform dances using advanced dance techniques within a range of dance styles and forms

Key learning points

  • • Core technical elements
  • • Styles and forms
  • • Performing with intent

This lesson at a glance

  • 22 minutes
  • 14 parts to scroll through
  • 3 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

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Advanced dance technique and styles

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In a nutshell

Perform dances using advanced dance techniques within a range of dance styles and forms

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Learning cycle

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Part 1 · Core technical elements

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Core technical elements

Across styles, dancers work on core technique: alignment (posture), extension (how fully a movement is stretched), control (stopping precisely) and dynamics (sharp versus fluid movement quality).

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Explore the idea

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Styles and forms

Contemporary dance often values fluid, floor-based movement and use of weight; street styles like hip-hop emphasise isolations and rhythm; traditional forms may follow set steps and formations. Advanced performers adapt technique to fit each style's demands.

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Quick check

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Quick check

What does 'extension' refer to in dance technique?

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Reset break

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Pause

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Quick check

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Quick check

Which dance style is particularly associated with isolations and rhythm?

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Performing with intent

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Performing with intent

Advanced dance is not just accurate steps — it is performing with clear intent, facial expression and projection so the choreography's meaning reaches the audience, not just the correct positions.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Why is performing 'with intent' important in advanced dance?

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Challenge round

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Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

____ performers adapt technique to fit each style's demands.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Advanced dance technique and styles

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. What does 'extension' refer to in dance technique?

  2. 2. Which dance style is particularly associated with isolations and rhythm?

  3. 3. Why is performing 'with intent' important in advanced dance?

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Lesson round-up

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What a warm-up is actually for

A warm-up raises the heart rate, sends more blood to the working muscles and raises muscle temperature by a couple of degrees. Warm muscle stretches further before it tears, and messages between brain and muscle travel faster, so movement is more accurate.

A good warm-up has three parts: a few minutes of easy movement, mobility that takes joints through the range the sport needs, and short bursts at close to game speed.

Long, still stretching before explosive sport can slow the muscle down. Save that kind of stretching for the cool-down.

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Reading questions

  1. Explain in your own words two things a warm-up does to the body.
  2. Design a ten-minute warm-up for one sport, with times for each part.
  3. Keep a training log for three sessions: what you did, how long, and how you felt after.

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