Fifth Grade Dance Showing Bears Weight

These fifth grade boys and girls displayed their choreographic tool-kit to perform original dances for their parents in a morning showing in November 2014. According to dance instructor Blake Pearson, the curriculum focuses on process and helps students build confidence, through practice and movements drawn from the material they learned in grade four, and from new dance "tools" learned this year.
This year's focus on weight and counterweight helped students create short, duets for the showing. They wrote their names with large strokes in the air before them, inspiring those familiar and quirky, modern-dance hand-movements. Finally, the group invited their parents up to demonstrate their understanding of weight and counterweight. They experimented with leaning toward and away from their parent partners.
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