NDTA: Dance ideas

Outline ideas for each year group: Magic carpet ride, Spring cleaning, Rainforest, Cricket, The River Speaks, Sitting Around.

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Inspired by the lyrics of Glass Spider by David Bowie.

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KS1 & KS2 – Flamenco KS2 & KS3 – Australian aboriginal. Lesson ideas from an article for the Real Histories Directory.

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Choreography and cross curricular work on theme of racism

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Using the Space. Humpty Dumpty – the rhyme as a stimulus. Winnie the Pooh – a puppet as stimulus.

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Up beat processional dancing inspired by South America

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Native American dance inspired by circles, cycles and seasons.

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Using the African folk tale – read a version at www.aaronshep.com/stories/024.html

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Using Science – stimulus of light and shadows

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Background information, a true story, poem and lesson ideas on themes of bullying and hiding

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Developing a dane ispired by Greek dance

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creating a performance using 1950s social partner dance

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