Dance 1 · Week 19 · Choreography and Partnering
Trust in Partnering
Partners practice counterbalance and weight sharing with clear verbal check ins, building trust step by step.
- Students will
- Partners practice optional counterbalance and weight sharing with clear verbal check ins, using intentional space, time, and energy, and build trust one step at a time.
- SEL skill
- Ask, listen, and adjust before sharing weight with a partner
- What it looks like
- Students build trust by communicating clearly, listening, and respecting a partner's limits.
- Content focus
- Trust in Partnering
- Format
- Partner exchange
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean communicating, listening, and cooperating so your relationships are healthy and respectful. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- DA:Pr4.1.HSI: Dance, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 4 (Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More relationship skills activities for Dance 1
- A Safe Space to Move Relationship skillsStudents cocreate studio agreements and practice a group warmup that welcomes every body and ability level.
- Time and Togetherness Relationship skillsGroups dance a rhythmic phrase in unison and in canon and notice how shared timing builds connection.
- Feedback in the Studio Relationship skillsStudents give feedback on a peer's dance study using kind, specific language and revise their own study.
- Group Choreography Relationship skillsGroups collaborate on a short dance using choreographic devices and practice making sure every member's ideas appear in it.
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