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The choreography

  • Here are guidelines to get you going with your improvisation. Remember that you have to create your own movements and dance from the movements. You do not have to follow the choreography notation religiously – it is only provided to give you ideas. Be creative!

Note: The music has a -beat. Each bar of the music has 8 counts. A move per count has been allocated to make it easy for you to count and to execute the movement.

THE COUNTS THE MOVEMENTS
1,2 Lunge to the right.
3,4 Lunge to the left.
5,6,7,8 Repeat lunges .
1 Lunge to the right, lifting the heel of the right foot.
2 Lower the heel.
3 Lunge to the left, lifting the heel.
4 Lower the heel.
5,6,7,8 Repeat.
1 Raise the left arm and lunge to the right, lifting the heel.
2 Circle the arm around in front; lower the heel.
3 Raise the right arm and lunge to the left, lifting the heel.
4 Circling the arm around in front, lower the heel.
5,6,7,8 Repeat.
1 Raise the left arm and, stepping out with the right foot, start circling the arm above head.
2 Finish your circle as you bring the left foot in to the right foot.
3 Step out to the right once more and start to circle the upper arm again.
4 This time bring the outstretched arm straight across the body, palm facing to the back, as you bend the right knee and lunge forward.
5,6,7,8 Repeat with the right arm raised, stepping to the left.
  • Try these movements, first without music, doing only the leg movements.
  • Add the arms when you feel comfortable with the leg movements.
  • You have just moved to the first four bars of the music.
  • Now try to improvise movements, using the above-mentioned prescribed choreography as a foundation for your own movements.

With the next four bars, we shall be experimenting with a kick and a turn.

THE COUNTS THE MOVEMENTS
1 Step forward with the right foot, bringing left foot up behind and stepping back onto the ball as you …
2 … step forward onto the right foot again, bending the knee in a lunge (this movement is easier to do than to read and is called ‘step-ball-change’. It has a slight jump at the moment when you transfer the weight from right to left and back to right again, rather like a gallop).
3 Pivot round to left in a half circle, keeping feet where they are, so that the left foot is in front with weight still on right foot, AND step-ball.
4 Change with left foot leading, finishing in a lunge with arms to the side.
5,6,7,8 Repeat.
1 Bring arms down and swivel torso to right, so right foot is in front. Take weight onto it …
2 … and lie back, kicking leg out to the front, opening arms in a low V.
3 Keeping hands up, return foot to the floor, then …
4 … transferring weight, bring right toe to left knee and swivel round to right through 360 degrees, lowering arms.
5 Step to side with right foot.
6 Swing hip to the right, arms in opposition.
7 Contract ribcage (as though punched in the stomach), bringing hands up, head down and pointing right foot.
8 As you slide it over left foot, bring hands down, head back.
  • The choreography is easier to do than to read, so be patient. It does take time to get used to the steps, but once you have the sequence, it becomes great fun.
  • Remember, there is no right or wrong. You can interpret the movements in your own style.

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Source:  OpenStax, Arts and culture grade 8. OpenStax CNX. Sep 12, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11046/1.1
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