Diane Louise Jordan's dances today focus in more detail on a colony of Emperor penguins.
3. Penguin parents
The penguins return, ‘greeting’ each other in pairs, then rolling an egg to their partner. A penguin ‘colony’ shuffles slowly, to keep warm from a blizzard (in three circles) then, as light relief, a penguin-chick takes comical, slip-sliding first-steps. This final programme includes performance of an extended penguin dance-sequence.
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Teacher's Notes
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Movement focus:
Action: stretching UP and melting DOWN; tiptoeing and rocking back on heels; building a dance-sequence.
Dynamics: contrasting ‘spiky’ with ‘smooth’; contrasting fast/comical with calm/relaxed; clear, distinct movements.
Space: whole class in interweaving circles; devising own choreography within a space.
Relationships: responding to partner (‘bowing’ and ‘looking away’); co-operating (egg-rolling); slow, careful teamwork, circle-formations.
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