Crystal's+Summary

__**Dance AQ**__


 * **Walk around space**
 * High five someone
 * Say Hello
 * Give simple move and then have students make it their own


 * **4 Corners**
 * 4 pictures in each corner of the room
 * 1) Hiding under a rock
 * 2) Scaredy cat
 * 3) Bird with a question mark
 * 4) Happy Dog
 * Had to pick which one represented our feelings towards teaching dance and then right on a sticky note write why we chose it and attach it to picture
 * *revisited this on the last day


 * **Name Recipe** (on USB in detail called Groovy Names Activity)
 * Make a static action for your name (go around circle doing your action and saying your name, then everyone copies, start from beginning each time)
 * The get into small groups and put moves together (teacher gives challenges along the way – a recipe)
 * Create a dance


 * **Across the floor**
 * Walk, skip, leaps, gallops, slide
 * Play a character (i.e. be a thief), discuss what a thief is and then have them explore levels and movement across the floor (repeat 3 times to encourage them to be different each time) 4 people go at one time
 * Other examples could Ninja, bird, princess
 * Have students choose


 * **Is this Dance? video**


 * **Mirror**
 * Use –ve space
 * Mirror around space following same person


 * **Group circle stretch**
 * All give a stretch and everyone repeats (start from head and move down)
 * Name the muscles the stretch is working


 * **Actions/Moves & Fitness**
 * Flick
 * Swish
 * Punch
 * 4 jumps to switch positions and repeat


 * **Chinese skipping ropes** (making shapes)
 * can be found at dollar store (sometimes)

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 * **Contact Improv**
 * 1) Press & release (with partner, push into each other, release away)
 * 2) Play with –ve space with partner (1. Arms, 2. Legs)
 * 3) Pull each other w/out falling (lean back), melt to floor, slide to come up, sitting down back to back and try to push up
 * 4) Try letting go with one hand then switch, different body parts (i.e. legs) EXPLORE
 * 5) Slides (brushes – shoulders, legs)
 * 6) Explore (start with press, roles, slides, lifts)


 * **I’ll Stop & Start**
 * Teacher starts moving around space then everyone starts moving
 * Then someone stops and slowly everyone begins to stop
 * Once everyone has stopped someone starts to move and the cycle repeats


 * **Meditation**


 * **Magnets** (opposite and same movements around space)


 * **Sight Specific Dancing** //(workshop)//
 * 5 different pictures around room (4 of each), everyone picks one that speaks to them and that forms the groups
 * Examples (staircase, box, park, bench)
 * Create a dance with your sight specific area (think about, formations, levels and all the elements of dance)
 * Can be done with or without music


 * **Magic Hand** (follow the hand with your body)


 * **Abstract Pictures**
 * Pictures to inspire movement
 * 2 groups (show one group a picture and have them move how they envision that picture to be and then after show the other group the picture)
 * Then repeat for the other group (5 times)
 * Next, get into small groups and give each group a picture, have them create 3 moves for it that travel
 * Have a viewing gallery, give piece a name and then present, after they perform show the audience the picture they brought to life through movement


 * **Maps**
 * In groups think of a starting and ending point and create a map for another group to get the treasure
 * Consider pathways, direction, level, loco & non-locomotor movements


 * **Jigsaw Puzzle**
 * Theme (i.e. love, peace)
 * Come up with a solo to represent it
 * Come together when feel ready in circle, use –ve space with peers to pose (pose still has to do with theme)
 * Then peal away in reverse order (last to come into picture is the first to leave doing same solo back to circle)


 * **Simple Choreo**
 * Walk, slide, turn, down and up
 * Then have students make these simple moves their own/more challenging in groups
 * Play different music (hip-hop feel, country, slow, disco, fast)


 * **Fruit Basket** (on USB)

- i.e. crawl backwards, hop sideways
 * **Inspire & Imitate**
 * 1) 3 partners
 * A, B, C
 * ‘A’ dances and inspires B & C to dance
 * Repeat for B & C
 * 1) B & C watch A do a dance & then write down 4 words that come to mind
 * then they move
 * ‘A’ does still movements
 * Mash 2 pieces together to create your solo
 * 1) Together all 3 three write down 2 directions to do in unison
 * 1) Then together (ABA)
 * unison, solos, unison
 * have to decide when to go back to unison part (i.e. clap, stomp, noise)
 * 1) Perform (2 groups at a time)


 * **Cloth Dance** //(workshop)//
 * Create own success criteria as class (everyone gets a sticky note) – what does a great dance require
 * Choose a theme (i.e. belonging)
 * Get a wordle with different words on it related to belonging and then as a group choose 4 that stand out to you (could be related to inclusion or exclusion)
 * In small groups play around with cloth first, see what you can do with it and explore your 4 words
 * Create a move for each word with transitions
 * Create a recipe for the piece
 * Perform


 * **Hip-Hop** //(workshop)//
 * All about CHARACTER!!!
 * Walk forward (8), glide back (4), walk again (8) – music inspired, make it your own and play the character! (3 different songs)
 * Simple movements
 * hop scotch (2, 1, 2 feet) slow to fast
 * body role, bounce
 * sponge bob
 * Combo to Mariah Carey - Fantasy


 * **The Exercise Song** (4 year olds)
 * Do exactly what the song says to do (i.e. walk, hop, drive your race car)
 * Consider levels, directions & pathways
 * You can add it with emotions


 * **Yoga warm-up**
 * Counts of 8
 * Squats hands up
 * Lunge back R, plank
 * Cobra (push down, rise back arch)
 * Downward dog
 * Repeat with L side
 * Balance activities (i.e. tree)


 * **Flocking** (on USB)
 * **Canon**
 * **Retrograde**


 * **Chance Dance** (on USB) – any theme (i.e. Pan Am), play 2 different songs
 * **Limon** (on USB) – swing & jump (given simple combo and then we have to change one thing to make it more simple for KG and then more challenging for high school)


 * **Ti-Chi**
 * Explore your own –ve space (fingers – thumb & index connected, other fingers straight)
 * Move hands slowly around body
 * Make 3D shapes (i.e. cylinder, square prism)
 * Hold it & then move is somewhere different around your body & from different perspectives


 * **Ballet** (on USB)
 * Bar work
 * Across the floor
 * Push off wall (to work on feet & turn out), compete with someone to see who can go the furthest
 * Two lines facing each other, make sure everyone has a partner and pretend to be the kings and queens and walk (on tippy toes if possible, keep your eye on your partner and play the role)


 * **Inclusion/Exclusion** (with chairs)
 * Chairs spread out around room (about 10 depending on class size)
 * 2 posters on wall (INCLUSION words & EXCLUSION words) *create w/ students
 * 1) Move around space, some students go on chairs, some still moving around space (isolate specific body parts to limit using it)
 * 2) Partner: explore some inclusion & then exclusion words (one part of your body always has to be touching the chair and something has to be limited i.e. not using right hand)
 * 3) You and your partner are opposites now (one inclusion, other exclusion)
 * 4) Add in different energies (i.e. sharp, soft, dynamic, vibrate, explode)
 * 5) Take away chair and perform piece again (but still illusion that chair is there)


 * **Bullying** //(workshop)// – role on the wall
 * Victim, Bully, Bystander
 * Outside circle, create 1 pose for each role
 * Pairs of 3 now, pick one move for each role
 * Create a movement piece
 * Create transitions
 * Each can take on a different role or all can do the roles together
 * Share, feedback (work on things audience an self want to see more off and then perform again)


 * **Groove** (On USB)
 * Start by having the students sit down and clap once after the teacher stomps twice
 * Then have the students clap wherever they want around their body and with peers (see the difference when you get to be creative?)
 * About 7 songs per groove, 2 moves per song (songs on USB with moves)


 * **Drama Musical Theatre** //(workshop)// *FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES
 * Moving around space, some people create a static pose while others are dancing
 * Then the students moving tap the posers and form their shape
 * You cannot move from your pose until someone has taken your position
 * NO talking
 * Without talking all together make a
 * Straight line
 * Circle
 * Huddle
 * Frozen moment in time
 * *make any
 * Walk around space
 * start following someone without them knowing (then 2, 3, 4, 5)
 * Take away 3 of those people so know you are looking at 2 people
 * Make a triangle with them and without them knowing
 * Tableau (show off)
 * Everyone freeze in a character and then teacher taps each student and they say a line


 * **Last day**
 * Finger lights
 * Teardrops song (tap all around you)
 * Open, close - in mirror
 * Move them like crazy (big circles)
 * Use –ve space around body (and then with partner)
 * Huddle together


 * 4 corners (3 word dance) – applause