This book was made for our dance classes! It works so magically with preschoolers' and kindergarteners' love of animal dances, imaginative play involving sneaking out and dancing at night, freeze dance games, and more. The words literally will narrate your group dance or structured improv for your class.
The story will inspire swinging, swaying, jumping, and wiggling. We will move slowly and quickly. We will FREEZE when we don't want to get caught at the zoo....
Musical selections can include bright jazz tunes like "Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock, "Seven Come Eleven" by Oscar Peterson, or "Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie.
Dance teachers - become the narrator of the book and let the words lead the sections of the dance (whether a culminating project or a recurring structured improv you repeat several times throughout the semester).
Tease out the concepts of the book over several lessons:
- Shapes/body positions
- Various animals and how they locomote, plus the levels they move on (high/middle/low)
- Fast and slow movement
- Improvised movement/set steps
- Naming steps/trying out new movement of your own that does not have a name
- Dancing 2 by 2 across the space
Purchase your copy of Sujean Rim's Zoogie Boogie Fever today!
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