The first of two dance sessions exploring busy city life.
1. Pavements and parks
In this session the children try out a variety of movement styles for pedestrians and buildings; then they mend and clean the streets in time to music before relaxing in a city park.
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Lesson summary
Warm up - busy streets: moving like a tall, busy city-worker, then an older,slower person, then a jogger keeping fi t and then choosing a variety of movingpedestrians.
Pavement parade: pairs practise varied moving-actions, then build these up inturn, to make some pavement actions.
Buildings short and tall: making and holding shapes for different buildings -short and wide, tall and narrow…and in-between.
Road menders: pairs shake and wiggle bodies backwards, forwards, up anddown, as builders mending the road; then shovel rubble into imaginary buckets.
Street-sweeping machine: working in groups of about four the children createa street-sweeping machine to move along different pathways. Each group’s inside armslink together, while outside-arms spin like rotating brushes and legs trundlearound carefully, up and down.
Off to the park: pairs skip around the green spaces of a city park, looking attrees and nature, feeding ducks, planting seeds in the park’s allotment and chasingoff pigeons.
Cool down: pairs relax and share a picnic in the park, then lie back in the sunshine.
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