The first of two dance sessions about circus skills.
1. Juggling, stilts and tightropes
The first dance session focus on practising and performing circus skills. These include juggling, walking on stilts, walking on stilts while juggling, tightrope walking and jumping on a trampoline.
Resources
Download the audio for this dance session as an mp3 file.
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Lesson summary:
Warm up: Stretching and uncurling.
Marching in the Big Top: March around, with shoulders back and head held high. Juggling: Using arms and hands to mime quick juggling actions.
Skipping: Moving around the Big Top, swinging arms and raising knees high. Unicycling: Balancing and actions.
Juggling on a unicycle: Combination of pedalling and juggling actions.
Stilt walking: Stilt walking actions, stiff and slow.
The tightrope: Climbing the ladder then careful balancing actions and jumping to finish.
The final performance: Using the actions and moves previously used to create a final performance.
Cool down: Time to relax with gentle leg lifts and deep breaths!
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