Dance 1 · Week 32 · Performance and Reflection
Performance Nerves
Students practice a pre performance routine of breath, visualization, and warmup to manage nerves.
- Students will
- Students practice a pre performance routine of breath, visualization, and warmup, and apply healthy practices so they can perform with focus and energy.
- SEL skill
- Use breath, visualization, and warmup to steady nerves and direct energy
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by using a breath, visualization, and warmup routine to turn nervous energy into focused energy.
- Content focus
- Performance Nerves
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is guiding your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can reach the goals you set. More self-management activities
What you get
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Standards
- DA:Pr5.1.HSI: Dance, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 5 (Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Dance 1
- Breath and Movement Self-managementStudents link breath to slow movement sequences and practice using them to calm stress.
- Brave Moves Self-managementStudents improvise to unfamiliar music, notice self-consciousness, and celebrate trying something new.
- Revising a Dance Self-managementStudents clarify the intent of their dance study using peer feedback and self-reflection and commit to one revision.
- Documenting Movement Self-managementStudents film and annotate their dance study and compare how it felt with how it looks.
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