Diane Louise Jordan has the first of three dance sessions based on the story of Pinocchio.
1. The wooden boy
The first session features: cheeky puppet movements; Pinocchio learning to walk from his maker/father Geppetto, the carpenter; then marching towards a Great Puppet Show; moving like a ‘lame’ fox and a ‘blind’ cat; going in disguise as robbers; performing tiptoe fairy-steps; and making long-nose actions!
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Teacher's Notes
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Movement focus
Action: Face and eye movements, including blinking; lifting and ‘flopping’ hands and feet; turning head side to side; skipping; marching, with lifted knees; ‘hunching’ forwards; foot to foot leaping; tiptoes, twists and turns; pretend ‘nose-stretching’.
Dynamics: Performing ‘mischievously’; moving at changing speeds, in time to music; contrasting ‘jerky’ with ‘floppy’; exaggerated comedy actions (as fox and cat).
Space: Skipping through spaces; organising a group performance space; leaping through spaces.
Relationships: Tapping in rhythm together; in pairs, trying out a teaching-learning relationship (simple walking) and a guiding-following relationship (as fox and cat).
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