Evaluation of lesson 2

In today's lesson we had a 2 hour practical followed by an hour of theory.

To start of the practical lesson, we had a 30 minute fitness session where we worked on core strength, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance and muscular strength. The exercises we did were a plank, sit ups (using an exercise ball) and a balancing core exercise also using the exercise ball. We also learnt about progressive overload and FITT (Frequency, Intensity, Time Type) and how we are going to interpret these into our lessons.

We then moved onto improvisation where we pretended we had the exercise ball and was improvising with it. After we developed this idea by improvising movements of circles in all different sizes and levels. Finally, everyone had to pretend that we was painting pictures with different parts of our bodies. This was really effective and made me portray movements I wouldn't normally do.

Our next part of the lesson was portraying our own choreography. This included us all developing each others movements and ideas and then developing our own motifs by following a set of ingredients. The ingredients included words that we displayed in our movements. We also included choreographic devices and picked 3 to show our classmates our finished motif.

Finally, the second part of the lesson was theory and we watched a dance piece called zero degrees. We jotted notes about the elements involved in the dance and then wrote a short essay of what we interpreted.