Ballet Prep and Ballet Mode – week 30th March 2020

Hello All

I hope you are managing to keep active and finding ways to have some fun. This week I am posting a couple of suggestions for you to add to your ballet practice. You already have your Shoe Shopping Skips and Frozen dances that you can practice too. As we have been focusing on Coordination this term, I thought it would be a good idea to practice your Hopscotch!

Hopscotch

Maybe you can chalk a Hopscotch grid outside somewhere near your house, or if you have some mats you could lay out a path the way we do in class. However you do it, remember to Hop on the one step and Jump landing with two legs on the 2 steps! If you are finding this easy and you can always make it harder by alternating which leg you hop on each time.

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Finding Fabric for your dance

Now following on with our Winter theme: can you find a scarf or some floaty fabric to dance with? Holding your scarf in one hand pretend you are swirling snowflakes in a snowstorm? Using the words below to inspire how you move:

Swirling, twirling, floating, landing, gusting, fluttering, swooping

Don’t forget to use both arms evenly when you’re dancing, swop the scarf from hand to hand. Maybe add in a leap, some travelling spins, some floor moves to your dance.

If you can find someone to join you create a dance together swirling and twirling together.

Can you still recreate the dance just using your arms without the scarf?

At the end of your practice don’t forget to Curtsey, especially if someone was watching you.

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Keep Dancing….I’d love to hear how you get on!

Winter theme music & ideas

Home practice for “BALLET TECH” and “BALLET FORM”: Both classes have been creating choreography inspired by our theme Winter. Each child is dancing in a group that has chosen music either from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Winter (or a piece called Clair de Lune by Debussy.

Practice maybe a bit trickier in these classes as in class students work as a group but maybe some willing siblings or family members would enjoy being taught some extra parts so that these choreographies can be practised more easily at home! Our focus for this term has been Coordination, why not see what movements or exercises you can come up with that incorporate arms and legs working in opposition to one another OR movements with arms and legs that work in time starting and finishing together.

BALLET ADVANCE students…. there is plenty you can be practising at home. Keep up with regular pointe work exercises which you should all know. I believe Rachel worked a lot on feet with you last week too. Also you could practise your fan dances and continue to come up with some choreographic ideas to add using your fans. I am not able to tell you which Saints Saen track it is yet but am working on finding out the name for you to access the music. I will post it on here once I can. I will be endeavouring to post regular posts so you can KEEP DANCING at home! Please share ideas on here so that others can have ago at them too. Georgie

Frozen Theme Ideas and Music

Home Practice for Ballet Prep and Ballet Mode students. Students from these classes have been working on dances this term inspired by the film Frozen. All children from both classes have created an idea that we have incorporated into a choreography. The sheets are in their ballet journals which will help them to remember each others ideas and order. Therefore these can be practised at home with music from David Plumpton which can be accessed on Amazon music. Another exercise which could be fun to practice from home are our “Shoe Shop Skips” children skip to the Wellie Boot shop to practice little jumps in first position to see if boots are waterproof in the puddles, then to the trainer shop where they test to see if they can run fast on the spot in parallel. they then skip to the High Heels shop to practice little walks on tip toe followed by the Ballet Shoe shop where they practice pointing and stretching their feet and legs. Maybe you can see what other ideas you can think of for other shoes like: Ice skates, slippers, football boots…… please post below any new ideas you may have for this so we can share for others to see… I will endeavour to keep posts coming over the weeks so that we can all KEEP DANCING !! Georgie xx