The first dance session explores the contrasting movements of sloths and leopards.
1. Sloth and leopard
This dance session focuses on the sloth and the leopard. We explore how the sloth loves to curl up asleep, then wake up and hang upside down in the trees. We also explore how the sloth reaches up into the trees to eat fruit. Down below, on the forest floor, the leopards practise their fast running, then prowl around the sloth鈥檚 tree, looking up hungrily.
Resources
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Lesson summary
Warm up
Grow upwards and stretch out your arms, as though you are a tree in the rainforest.
The rainforest flowers open
Skip around the space, then push your arms out and upwards, like a flower opening its petals.
The sloth wakes up and it rains
Stretch like the sloth waking up. Tap your hands on your shoulders, then pat your back, then slap your hands on the floor as the rain.
The sloth eats some fruit and hangs upside down
Work with a partner. Stretch up to reach the fruit, then peer at each other through your legs.
The leopard runs fast
Practise your fast running on the spot.
The leopard runs fast, then in slow motion
Run fast on the spot, then take big steps in slow motion like a leopard hunting its prey.
The sloths wake up and the leopards prowl around
The class divides into two groups. Group A are the sloths and Group B are the leopards.
Cool down
Lie down in a space and imagine that you are camping in the rainforest.
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