San Diego CAHPERD Unit 47-412

Fall Workshop

Point Loma Nazarene University

October 30, 2004

"BUILDING TOGETHER"

 

Design Your Own Dance

Standards: Step-by-Step

1 – apply appropriate feedback to a partner when developing or improving dance skills

2 – apply locomotor and nonlocomotor skills to different dances

4 – analyze dance skills using Newton’s Third Law

5 – participate in a wide variety of aerobic exercises and explain FIT concepts for cardio respiratory and endurance

6 – perform exercises for all five areas of health-related fitness

7 – analyze the variables of physical development within their peer group and the affect on their performance in dance activities

8 – choose to participate in dance activities

9 – appreciate aesthetic features of stylist differences in performance of movement activities

10 – display cooperative skills in small groups during a movement-related experience

11 – describe the origin of movement-related activities during Ancient Times.

Kristen Okura

Don Juan Avila Middle School

klokura@capousd.org

PROGRESSIVE DANCE UNIT

 

1. Paper dance (5 ½ mins)

Equipment: piece of paper (w/ sayings to read before class, i.e. Character Pillars)

Music: Anything. Jock Jams Mega Mix and We will Rock you.
  1. Plate Dance

    2. Music: Twistin’ the Night Away -

  2. Movement Lines

Music: Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
      1. Walk
      2. Strut
      3. Walk forward half way and then walk backwards
      4. Two steps and pause (continue forward)
      5. Fours steps forward two steps back
      6. Three steps and a hop/jump
      7. Three steps and a hop/jump and turn and backwards three steps and a hop, cont…
      8. Lead Walk (like you have lead boots on)
      9. Grapevine
      10. Karaoke
      11. Step together, step together, step stomp stomp
  1. Bop Dance (one wall) Use as warm-up/review next class meeting

Music: The Bop – Dan Seals, Whoomp There it Is – Tag Team (faster)

8 cts – Walk forward 4, backward 4

8 cts – Step R, Step L, Grapevine R

8 cts - Step L, Step R, Grapevine L

8 cts – 4 cha chas in a circle/box (or anything for 8 cts)

 

5. Whoomp it UP Dance (two wall)

Music: Respect – Aretha Franklin, Whoomp There It Is – Tag Team

8 cts – Step (slide) R, slide L, slide R, slide L

8 cts - Pump steps R, L, R, L (pump step is a step with a hip pump on best 2, it will have the same beat as a quick cha cha step)

Say, "Right pump, Left pump, Right pump, Left pump

8 cts – Big step back w/ right foot (2 cts0

In basketball terms this would be a drop step followed by a reverse pivot)

the 4th beat.

 

 

6. Iceman Dance (4 wall)

Music: Whoomp There It Is – Tag Team, I Like To Move It – Sports Jam

8 cts – 1 jump forward (1,2), 1 jump back (3,4)

3 jumps forward (5, 6, 7), clap (8)

Direction Steps

Step out left side, back together (1,2)

Step out right side, back together (3, 4)

Step right back, ("hi", wave) (5, 6)

Step right forward kick step Ό turn, slide L together (7,8)
Start dance over facing new direction
  1. Men in Black (4 wall)

    2. Music: Men in Black – Will Smith

    16 cts – walk forward 4, walk backward 4 (2x)

    8 cts – Bounce in place "Alien" style

    8 cts – Slide R, slide L, Slide R, slide L

    8 cts – R heel touch out, back, out, back, L heel touch out , back, out and leave it

    there, pivot turn Ό R

    4 cts – 4 "neck bobs"

    4 cts – 4 hand waves

    Begin the dance after 4 hard beats in the beginning!

  2. Locomotion (1 wall, can add a partner)

Music: "Hot, Hot, Hot" – Buster Poindexter Locomotion – Kylie Minogue

8 cts – R heel touch, L heel, R heel, L heel

8 cts – R touch side, then pick it up in front (towards knee), 2X, Grapevine R

8 cts – L touch side, then pick it up 2X, Grapevine L

8 cts – R hand high five (2X), L hand high five (2x), 2 hands raise the roof (2x), slap tights (2x)

8 cts – Walk in a circle 8 beats

 

SOUTH BRUNSWICK MIDDLE SCHOOL FISH DANCE

COMPLIMENTS OF MELANIE CHAMPION NASPE 2001 MIDDLE

CHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR

MUSIC: "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT" BY BAHA MEN

(Boogie Boogie Choo Choo or Brooklyn Bounce or any fast song works great)

STEPS:

CIRCLE RIGHT PALM OVER RIGHT EAR 4 TIMES (WAX ON)

CIRCLE LEFT PALM OVER LEFT EAR 4 TIMES (WAX OFF

CIRCLE RIGHT PALM OVER RIGHT HIP (OR LOWER) 4 TIMES (WAX ON)

CIRCLE LEFT PALM OVER LEFT HIP (OR LOWER) 4 TIMES (WAX OFF)

HANDS TOGETHER AND CAST (LIKE YOUR FISHING) TO THE RIGHT WITH RIGHT HEEL OUT TO THE SIDE AND BRING HANDS AND HEEL BACK TO THE FRONT OF THE BODY (4 COUNTS)

HANDS TOGETHER AND CAST TO THE LEFT WITH THE LEFT HEEL OUT TO THE SIDE (4 COUNTS)

TOUCH INSIDE OF LEFT KNEE WITH RIGHT HAND ONE TIME

TOUCH INSIDE OF THE RIGHT KNEE WITH LEFT HAND ONE TIME

TOUCH INSIDE OF THE LEFT CALF WITH RIGHT HAND ONE TIME

TOUCH INSIDE OF THE RIGHT CALF WITH LEFT HAND ONE TIME

FROM SQUATTING POSITION TOUCH THE FLOOR IN FRONT

WITH THE LEFT HAND ONE TIME

TOUCH THE FLOOR IN BACK WITH RIGHT HAND ONE TIME

TOUCH THE FLOOR IN THE FRONT WITH THE LEFT HAND ONE TIME

CLAP BOTH HANDS TOGETHER ONE TIME AS YOU BEGIN TO RISE

"REEL IN" FOR 8 COUNTS (ROLL HANDS IN A FIST UP AND OVER EACH OTHER IN A CIRCULAR MOTION CLOCKWISE)

TOUCH RIGHT HAND TO LEFT HIP, TOUCH LEFT HAND TO RIGHT HIP – TOUCH RIGHT HAND TO RIGHT HIP, TOUCH LEFT HAND TO LEFT HIP

JUMP FORWARD WITH BOTH FEET AND BACK (2 COUNTS)

JUMP WITH BOTH FEET 1/4 TURN TO THE LEFT FORWARD AND BACK (2 COUNTS)

REPEAT DANCE

 

6th Grade Emphasis: "Working Cooperatively to Achieve a Common Goal"

Tanko Bushi
(Coal MinerΉs Dance)
History:  This is a Japanese Folk-Dance, which tells a story about the coal miners in Japan.  This danced is performed at summer festivals called Ubons.  The actions of the dance represent the digging for coal, shoveling it into a cart, shading the eyes from the sun, and pushing the coal cart away up a hill.

Personal Side Story: These dances are done out of honor for the ancestors that have passed on before you. They are not to be done in fun otherwise you are dishonoring the family line. I learned this dance for my great-grandmother’s 90th birthday party (she lived to be 102). We danced to honor her and her life so far. At the festivals, you dance for all those who have passed on before. So no goofing around!

Formation:  Circle of Dancers and/or circles within circles.  Face counterclockwise

Lines can be used to teach the parts.
Music:  Tanko Bushi  (Human Kinetics, Multicultural Folk Dance)

Directions:
Part 1:  Dig
 (4 counts) Tap the ball of your right foot, then step onto the right foot while pretending to dig twice to the right with a big shovel. (Dig)
 (4 counts) Tap the ball of your left foot, and then step onto the left foot while pretending to dig twice to the right with a big shovel. (Dig)

Part 2: Shovel
 (2 counts)  Step forward on the right foot as you bring your hands together with palms up and pretend to throw coal over you right shoulder. (Shovel)
 (2 counts)  Step forward on the left foot as you bring your hands together with palms up and pretend to throw coal over your left shoulder. (Shovel)
Part 3: Shade (has also been called wiping the sweat from your eyes)

 (2 counts) Rock weight backward to step on the left foot and pretend to shade your eyes or wipe the sweat away with the right hand as the left arm is extended to the side. (Step Back & Shade)
 (2 counts) Rock weight backward to step on the right foot and pretend to shade your eyes or wipe the sweat away with the left hand as the right arm is extended to the side. (Step Back & Shade)
Part 4:  Push Cart Forward
 (4 counts) Step forward onto the right foot, then step on to the left foot while putting your hands together with palms forward and pretending to push the cart forward twice.

Part 5: Spread the Coal
 (4 counts)  Step forward (variation: step toward the middle of the circle with your left foot) onto the right foot while bringing your arms to the sides, making a circle (spreading the coal), and clap.  Step backward onto the left foot, then step backward with the right foot to bring feet together.
Part 6: Clapping and Reset  

(4 counts) Clap... pause (turn back into line)...clap-clap, clap.

ALUNELUL (al-loo-nay-loo)

County of origin: Romania

Alunelul means "little hazelnut"

Formation: circles of 8-10 people

Stamps do not have a weight change in this dance. For styling, step behind onto the ball of the foot, versus the whole or flat foot. This dance uses whole and half counts of music, which makes it very lively.

Part I: Double Grapevine with Double Stamp X 2

Traveling toward the right, step right foot, step on the left foot behind the right foot, step on the right foot, step on the left foot behind the right foot again, step on the right foot and stamp twice with left foot. Repeat to your left.

Part II: Single Grapevine with Single Stamp X 2

Traveling toward the right, step on the right foot, step on the left foot behind the right foot, step on the right foot and stamp once with the left foot. Repeat to your left.

Part III: Alternating Side Steps and Stamp with the Double Stamp

Traveling toward the right, step on the right foot and stamp the left heel, traveling the left, step on the left heel and stamp with the right heel. Then step on the right foot and double stamp with the left heel. Repeat to the left side. And repeat dance to the end of the music.

 

Kristen, thanks!