Giraffes Can't Dance Dance Strategies

Giraffes Can’t Dance

1. Before Reading: (Space, Body, Time)

• Explore and discuss how to present animals in dance form.
• Play different pieces of jungle music (fast/slow).
• Have students move around the room and as they do call out different jungle animals and have students move like that animal.
• When the music stops they must culminate in a statue that recreates the animal.
  
  

2. Summarize or Read Giraffes Can’t Dance

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3. Create a Piece: (Canon)

• A choreographic form in which a dance phrase is performed by more than one soloist or group and begins at different times so that the phrases overlap
• Groups are each given an animal and must come up with a dance piece in canon form. (everyone performs the same movements. They start a few beats after each other)

• Play a piece of music and have them perform