5th Grade Take 5 Creative Movement

The 5th graders created musical movements to the jazz piece Take 5.  They had to show a formation, use levels and decide how to connect (or not) while showing movement to the music.  A formation is how they are set up~ in a line, a circle, staggered, random etc.  Levels refers to how they are positioned in space- near the floor- reaching up high or in between.  They might connect by touching feet, hands, elbows, toes, backs etc.  We haven't had a chance to explore the 5/4 meter formally, yet some of the groups intuitively are moving in groups of 5 beats (unusual meter for American culture) watch for movement ideas that follow 1,2,3, 1,2 (which = 5).  It's really fun to see how they create their dances using these tools to show their movement ideas.  Some of the groups decided they did not want to share with the blog this time even though their dances were great!  So I posted the brave groups- enjoy!       Blue Group.      Red Group.      Yellow Group 1.        Yellow Group 2