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Creative dance - Leprechaun
"When I got to the fair ground"

Music analysis sheet  Upstairs/Downstairs Music file

SECTION 1
Skipping action for dance

SECTION 2
Jumping action with partner

SECTION 3
Story and imagery ideas

SECTION 4
Faire ground rides - Turning shape and whole dance




 

 

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SECTION 4 - Faire ground rides - Turning shape.

What rides could the leprechaun do at the faire?
TURNING shape
Create a shape, freeze and turn to 8 beats.  
R - Bumper cars, ferris wheel.
B - Body parts, body shape.
S - Levels, extensions, directions
E - Sustained flow.  Firm.
Work with partner.
One person be 'A' and other be 'B'.  'B' freeze whilst 'A' turns.  Pass movement three times to three phases of 4 beats. 
R - Pass on movement.  Like a machine.
E - Force and direction.  Freeze as pass on. Sustained.
B - Body parts touch

 
 


Practice linking all the actions to the beat set by the teacher.
 
Practice to music from beginning.

 

R - Focus on hearing the changes in the phases of the music.  
What happens when the leprechaun gets to the faire? E - Collapse - sudden loss of tension.
B - Role of different body parts when collapse
S - Collapse at different levels.


 

Music - Do roles to music from the beginning with a collapse to finish.

 

 

R - Note, repeats twice.