Students will review the Laban Movement Efforts: thrust, float, slash, glide, wring, dab, press, flick. They will create shapes moving through a high, medium, and low levels. Without touching, one student will create a shape while their partner creates another shape in the first student's negative space.
Students will explore straight and curved lines by using their bodies to write letters of the alphabet. They will write their own name using different body parts--head, hand, hip, foot, etc. Working in groups, students will create a dance that has a beginning, middle, and end. They will explore different levels while moving.
Students will use curved and straight lines, locomotor and non-locomotor movements, and different levels while moving to music. They will use simple choreography to recall patterns with their bodies and where they will move in space. They will draw a dance map of the movements they performed.
Students will pretend to surf, using low, medium, and high levels. They will identify pathways that surfers use such as straight, curved, and zigzag. They will choose one level and one pathway to move to disco music. They will perform the following disco moves: Roll, Disco Duck, and Hustle. They will perform these movements to disco music.
The students will review the previously learned disco steps. Working in groups, they will choreograph a movement sequence that has a beginning, middle, and end with a pose. They will perform their dance for the class.
Students will create an imaginary force field and move around the room while demonstrating the weight of a variety of music. They will use a single word to describe their movements. They will work together to create movements to match the descriptive words.