Art Form: Dance

Supplies Needed

-All Are Welcome book

Vocabulary

Body Shape - refers to an interesting and interrelated arrangement of body parts of one dancer

Level - one of the aspects of movement (there are three basic levels in dance: high, middle, and low)

Movement - change of place, position, or posture

Pattern - something that repeats in a predictable way

Rondo - a form where a sequence of contrasting moves or sounds occur with a return to the first movement or sound (ABACADA)

Central Message - the big idea or lesson of the story

Instructions

1. After reading All Are Welcome Here, discuss the main repeating phrase in the story - the line, “All are welcome here!”. What is the central message of the story? You will be creating choreography in a rondo pattern, and the movement that you create to represent this line or central message will become your dance move “A”.

2. A rondo follows the pattern A B A C A D. Begin by creating your dance move A by thinking to yourself “What movement can I do to show that all are welcome here?” (Ex: Arms moving outward from body slowly and open palms).

3. Then, read through the book once more and for each rhyming section, create one summary movement that will become dance moves B, C, D, and so on.

4. Lastly, perform your rondo dance.

Extensions

Play music while performing the dance and experiment with how different music may cause you to change your dance’s tempo, rhythm, or duration.