Lesson two:
Skills:
● Shape (clam)
● Sway and sting (using different rhythm and effort)
● Movement quality and rhythm
● Locomotion (sliding)
Creative Thinking:
Sway and sting (using different body parts, directions, levels)
Problem Solving:
● Swaying at different levels.
● Sting using different body parts.
● Changing direction while sliding.
● Using different pathways.
● Experimentation with variation within dance sequence.
Introduction:
Review by doing: opening and closing (slowly and fast, on low and high levels, sinking
quietly). Walking and gliding through space without bumping into each other (changing
direction on meeting someone). Exploration:
1. Show picture of jelly fish. Talk about how jelly fish sway in the water. Practice
swaying with arms, in front, beside, behind you in a sitting position. Sway your
back and head too. Try kneeling and repeat the sways. See if you can rise and
sway to standing position. Show how you sway in a standing position. Does
bending your knees help you to sway better? How about swaying with your hips
too?
2. Jelly fish can sting too. And sometimes they are poisonous. Try fast little
flicking, poking, dabbing with hands or feet. What about using other body
parts other than your hand and feet? What about the elbows or knees? Make
sure you stand apart from the others so that you do not accidentally sting
someone.
3. Rhythmic sway and sting. Slowly sway, sway and quickly sting, sting, sting. Use
tambourine, shaking twice for the sways and three light tabs for the stings. See
if you could be sharp and spiky with those stings. Freeze the last sting. Remember
to bend the knees and sway the hips too.
4. Introduce sliding. Practise sliding around like fishes. Remember to look for
empty spaces and look towards the direction you are moving. See if you could
change direction quickly each time you meet someone. All the boys freeze in a
high open shape and all the girls slide around the boys. Do not bump into them.
Change role after girls have their turn moving
Final Dance:
● Giant clam opens and closes slowly (2x), opens slowly and closes fast.
● Clam opens slowly as it grows taller and stretches into a high open shape.
● Fish go sliding and sliding all around the coral reef and freeze in a high
shape.
● The jelly fish sway, sway, sting, sting, sting.
● Fish go sliding and then freeze in a high open shape, sink quietly into a small
closed shape.
● Music (Dingles Bay from Irish Mist). Continue with use of the tambourine.