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So Here's the Routine
Your dance activities will teach you:
- basic physical skills and,
- how to apply your basic skills.
Skillful, Self-challenging Ways to Dance the Night - and Day - Away
Decide with your teacher which of these activities to complete:
- After viewing a video or musical that features dancing, choreograph and perform one of the dance sequences. Some musicals to check out are Grease, Rent, Stomp, Cats, Lord of the Dance, or Riverdance.
- Incorporate equipment into your dancing! Try using skip ropes, rings or hoops for line dancing. Or use scarves, fans, canes, or parachutes to create dance moves that require you to move up and down and all around while standing in place (this uses your nonlocomotor skills). You can do this with or without music.
- Create a dance sequence demonstrating a change in direction, level and pathway. This means that you'll be moving forward and backwards, sometimes up tall, down low, or perhaps in the middle. The pathways can be curved, straight, zigzagged, or a combination of these. Now can you repeat this sequence and set it to music? (The macarena is an example of a repeated sequence.) Perform your dance for a teacher or parent. You might want to charge them for the show!
- Try your hand - and your feet - at a cultural dance. Explore their different patterns of movement as you participate. Work on dances that include different formations like line or circle dances. Now perform a variety of dances for a peer, parent or teacher.
- Create and choreograph your own dance. Base it on any style of music you like. Try developing it along the lines of a theme such as nature, poetry or pictures.
- Think of some of the basic moves you use in sports. Examples include sliding in baseball, lay-up in basketball, slap shots in hockey, or setting in volleyball. You get the idea. Choose five movements and repeat them in time to the music of your choice.
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