Teeny Tiny Looney Dances

Section 1

• Meet Roberta
• 01

  Meet Roberta

  

  01:34

  

• Down the Rabbit Hole

  In this first part of the training plan, Roberta will be introducing some of the animals characters in the story and will ask children to move different body parts.

  The warm up will be followed by a fun activity that introduces Alice and the White Rabbit, and plays with the contrast of the two different speed of their movements.

  Children will then become acquainted with the magical qualities of some objects in the story and experience their ability of changing their body shape in space (i.e. getting bigger or smaller) like Alice does in The Rabbit`s Hole.

  Extra Material:

  • A website full of resources and links on Alice in Wonderland
  • Colouring (Disney pages) to print
• 02

  Down the Rabbit Hole

  

  00:52

  

• 1.1 Can you do this?

  How many animals can you find in Alice in Wonderland`s story? Children will get to know some of them and do their actions in a playful way, either moving in their personal space, exploring various levels, either traveling across the room with locomotor movements.

• 03

  1.1 Can you do this?

  

  10:28

  

Section 2

• 1.2 Are you fast or are you slow?

  Children get acquainted with the frantic quality of the fast White Rabbit, and by contrast the slow pace of some of Alice`s movements.

  Exploration is purposed by different sound cues that will help children to move at a slow or fast tempo.

• 01

  1.2 Are you fast or are you slow?

  

  

  

  

• 1.3 Eat Me! Drink me!

  Imaginary play and dance mix together as children experience the contrasting possibilities of becoming very small, or very big. Children will also explore how they can make different shapes (round, spiky, curly etc) with their body.

  Different sound cues will mark the change in shape, and will help them to respond to sounds in a creative way.

• 02

  1.3 Eat Me! Drink me!

  

  10:34

  

  

• 1.4 Teeny Tiny Looney Dance #1

  In this creative dance children can combine all the movements explored so far and join Roberta in their first Teeny Tiny Looney Dance.

• 03

  1.4 Teeny Tiny Looney Dance #1

  

  03:14

  

  

• 1.5 The Balloon

  Using their imagination children will become aware of the movements involved in deep breathing. Children will also concentrate on different rhythms of breathing.

• 04

  1.5 The Balloon

  

  05:59