Here are some 6th grade boys performing their own made-up gumboot dance.
They don't have gumboots, but that's not stopping them..... You asked for more links for younger kids, this is the best I can find. Look to the right-hand column.
I think for younger kids, it would be good to do something with a steady march and a sequence of maybe four moves that repeat over and over. You might have a series of breaks where individual kids improvise after they have learned a vocabulary of sounds. |
Basic Gumboot steps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0nb5_wDR_M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0z1OO-qFHI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUtQg7jVlUI Group Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Q51WVrR40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WdhA_i8YT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Nk-VdDuv8&list=PL7C4C182A9318E86C More videos to learn from, use these with younger kids maybe..... Gumboot dancing step 1 Gumboot dancing step 2,3 Gumboot dancing step 4,5,6,7 |