Justin Fletcher's dances explore things that can be made from wood.
2. Making things with wood
In the second dance session of this woodland unit the children develop work-actions for making furniture, toys and puppets. Then, in pairs as puppets and musicians, they practise three dances - with a wooden flute (slow and elegant), with a guitar (flamenco-dancer) and with a fiddle (inventing their own lively foot-patterns), each puppet ‘accompanied’ by the musical-instrument actions.
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Teacher's Notes
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Lesson summary:
Warm up: woodland stretches.
Making things from wood: woodwork actions for using tools.
String puppets: wooden string-puppet movements.
Flute dance: wooden-flute actions and graceful twirling.
Flamenco dance: flamenco-guitar and dance actions, with foot-stamps and turns.
Fiddle dance: fiddle/violin actions plus hops and kicks in own, lively pattern.
Night time cool down: take deep breaths and close eyes…
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