Tradition and Composition: Unit of Work for Cotswold Morris Dance
Tradition and Composition: Unit of Work for Cotswold Morris Dance
GCSE Dance (or similar dance courses)
Ref: AQA Dance Spec 4230 from June 2014
A resource for teachers and dance artists working with dance courses at Key Stage 4 and above. It includes written notes and accompanying video clips and audio files. This six week Unit of Work provides an introduction to English traditional Cotswold morris dance and music, with composition tasks and ideas for developing further work, taking stimuli from The Full English digital archive of folk music and dance manuscripts.
This resource is based on a Cotswold morris dance and music project with Year 10 (students aged 14-15years) GCSE level students participating in The Full English learning programme at Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes in 2014.
A vital part of the project was that the morris dance should be used creatively as a new language of dance and fused with the contemporary styles the students have been studying, equipping them with material to create challenging phrases.
The pack is freely available for download from the PDF tab at the bottom of this page.
Additional video and audio recordings are also freely available for download from the relevant linked pages.
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