Chance Dance

Fourth and fifth grade students have been learning about modern dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham used a method of creating dances called choreography and composition by chance. Students explored ways of making their own chance dances by rolling the dice to figure out the sequence of movement purely by chance! We also had fun using movement inspired by our favorite secret spy agent characters. Each movement from 'super hero jumps' to 'laser beam sneaking' was assigned a number. From there we used our phone number or birthday sequence to create group dances.

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How do you warm up for dance?

Every dancer knows it is important to warm up your body before you dance. Kindergarten and 1st grade students warm up with their Jungle Boogie Warm Up! We created this warm up by finding animals for every letter of the alphabet and then making a movement for each. We are excited to share that we just completed every single letter A-Z!

2nd and 3rd grade students warm up with the BrainDance adapted from Ann Green Gilbert. This warm up moves through the 8 developmental stages of movement that all humans go through.