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Warm Up Task

The document discusses the importance of warm ups and cool downs for dance practice. It states that warm ups prepare the body for exertion, raise core temperature, increase blood flow, and focus the dancer mentally. A proper warm up should include low-impact isolated movements, cardio exercises, stretches, and strength activities. This prepares the muscles for complex movements, aids contraction and relaxation, reduces soreness, and minimizes injury risk. The document also provides guidelines for assessing student-led warm ups, including preparation, engagement, teaching ability, and organization.

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Warm Up Task

The document discusses the importance of warm ups and cool downs for dance practice. It states that warm ups prepare the body for exertion, raise core temperature, increase blood flow, and focus the dancer mentally. A proper warm up should include low-impact isolated movements, cardio exercises, stretches, and strength activities. This prepares the muscles for complex movements, aids contraction and relaxation, reduces soreness, and minimizes injury risk. The document also provides guidelines for assessing student-led warm ups, including preparation, engagement, teaching ability, and organization.

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The Importance of Warm Up and Cool Down in

Dance Practice

It is essential to understand the importance of a warm up and cool down to improve your physical
ability, prevent injury, and accelerate the recovery process and aid in reducing fatigue.
During dance practice or any physical activity your body has to work hard to adapt to higher levels
of stress. It is important to warm up your body in preparation for the increased energy demands.
Why is it important to warm up for dance practice?
Warm up is very important as it prepares the body for physical exertion and engages your
cardiovascular system.
Dance warm up aims to:
 Raise the core body temperature
 Increase heart rate and blood flow to essential muscle groups
 Increase mobility around joints
 Focus and prepare the dancer mentally and physically for the dance to follow.
The warm up may include:
 Low impact, small body part movements, isolations and coordination.
 Moving to more vigorous cardiovascular activities and repetition exercises/dance steps
 Preventative stretches for large muscle groups or specific muscles in preparation for skills.
 Strength activities
What are the benefits of a dance warm-up?

 Prepares body for complex movements


 Aids muscle contraction and relaxation
 Can reduce muscle soreness
 Prepares mind and body for dance
 May minimise the risk of injury
Warm up Assessment
You will be placed into groups of 2 and be given a particular week to conduct the class warm up. You will
be required to plan and cover all the necessary components in order to conduct a “safe warm up”. Plan
your warm up in the space provided below and allocate who will lead each section.

What genre are you designing your warm up for? ____________________________________

Group members Group number –

What music will


Who will lead Why is this section being
What will the activities be? be used?
the section? included?
Time?

Body part
warm up,
including
isolation and
simple
coordination

Cardio-
vascular
exercises

Strength
exercises

Flexibility
exercises
Warm up
Use this page to write out your warm up sequence for the sections you are taking. Be sure to use correct
movement vocabulary, names of body parts and music counts. You can also draw diagrams or copy and
paste pictures. On the day of your warm up please be prepared and have your music organised. Remember
to give verbal safe dance instruction, necessary corrections and encouragement. Please refer to the marking
key attached.

SECTION: _________________________________
MUSIC: ___________________________________
SECTION: _________________________________
MUSIC: ___________________________________
Warm up Assessment Marking Key
0 Marks
1 Mark 2 Marks 3 Marks 4 Marks
Not Shown Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Good selection of Excellent selection
Body part selection of selection of isolation of isolation
warm up, exercises. exercises. movements. exercises.
Does not focus on Selects most Warming up each Effectively warms
including
warming up many body parts for body part. up the each body
isolation and individual body warm up. Some Includes some part. Creative
simple parts. inconsistencies. coordination ideas.
coordination Little creativity. exercise.

Cardio- Not Shown Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Good selection of Excellent selection


selection of cardio selection of cardio cardio exercise. of cardio exercise.
vascular
exercises. exercises. Some Warming up the Effectively warms
exercises Does not warm up inconsistencies. body. Some up the whole body.
the body. creativity.
Not Shown Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Good selection of Excellent selection
selection of selection of strengthening of strengthening
Strength strengthening strengthening exercises. Works exercises. Works
exercises exercises. Can be exercises. Some most muscle all major muscle
unsafe. inconsistencies. groups. groups to improve
performance.
Not Shown Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Good selection of Excellent selection
selection of selection of flexibility exercise. of flexibility
Flexibility flexibility flexibility Stretches most exercises.
exercises exercises. Can be exercises. Some muscle groups. Effectively
unsafe. inconsistencies. stretches major
muscles groups.
Not Shown Students are Students are Displays a high Displays a very
Engages following along. mostly engaged level of energy and high level of energy
participants and following engages most and completely
along. students. engages students.
Not shown Conducts warm- Sometimes Displays a high Displays a very
up with little displays level of confidence. high level of
confidence. confidence. Uses a very good confidence. Uses
Shows students Sometimes uses range of voice an excellent range
what to do but is appropriate voice projection and can of voice projection
Teaching
hard to follow. projection when assist other and is able to
ability Little or no verbal giving minimal students. Some effectively correct
instruction. instruction. safe dance and assist other
instruction. students. Gives
safe dance
instruction.
Not shown Minimal Satisfactory Very good Excellent
organisation organisation organisation skills. organisation skills.
skills. Written plan skills. Some Some detail in the Comprehensive
incomplete and evidence of written plan. Music written plan,
Organisation seems to forget written plan mostly organised including counts,
the sequence, although not and remembers the safe dance
music not thorough. Mostly sequence quite instruction and
prepared. remembers. well. music

Total Mark
/ 20
/20

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