This week our classes were inspired by a CD lent to me by my friend Edna.
"Welcome to Goran Bregovic" is a wonderful disc with a great range of rhythms, moods and tempos. His website www.goranbregovic.rs is gorgeous and has many more CDs of his music. Edna filled me in on her class which was, as usual, wonderful but of course I used some activities that suited then added my own.
The set up was a construction of square frames around the edge of the space that were windows looking into a snowy courtyard with white material as drifts of snow.
This is how the class went.
Task 1 Track 9 Looking through the windows making shapes, looking at friends in windows across courtyard.
Task 2 Track 7 Holding sleigh bells dancers follow rhythm 12 123 (good thing bells are so loud as lyrics are a bit dark!) up, down, side to side, holding shape 12 and moving 123, step, step, turn around etc.
Task 3 Track 6 Dancers make shapes of icicles in courtyard that melt into a puddle that shrinks as it evaporates. Dance to another place and start again.
Task 4 Track 8 Dancers throw white material snow balls watching where they land. How many ways of throwing- behind, though legs etc. Then trowing through windows and quickly throwing them out again.
Task 5 Track 18 Skiing all the movements of the down hill racers, slalom etc but accidents happen and falls in various ways are explored.
Task 6 Track 17 Apres Ski. Big party to finish with all the tricks of spins, cartwheels, leaps, twists and steps they can think of ending with a Conga Line out the door.
Another week of fun!
What fun activities did you explore this week? I would love to hear from you.
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