大象传媒

The second of two dance sessions about Diwali and the story of Rama and Sita.

2. Monkey madness

Following a repeat performance of the cleaning sequence from the previous session, we return to the story of Rama and Sita and how Hanuman 鈥 the Monkey King 鈥 helps to rescue the princess.

Resources

Download the audio for this dance session as an mp3 file.

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Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)

Teacher's Notes

Lesson summary:

Warm-up: scrubbing at a low level; polishing at a medium level; travelling by sweeping with bounces in between.

Monkey madness: exploring the characteristics of a monkey; travelling by shuffling, rolling, turning, jumping.

Wild waves: in individual space, swaying with the body and rippling with the arms to suggest waves; use of different strength and speed.

Building bridges: individually, creating a bridge shape; travel in monkey-style from the edge of the room to create a linked line of bridges; the class is divided into two groups for action-reaction sequence: the waves ripple, gradually increasing to strong fast movement; meanwhile the monkeys form a bridge.

Celebration: skipping freely through the space with light, bouncy steps; waving, shaking hands and relating to others.

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