#DANCE AND FREEZE DOWNLOAD#
Materials: Recording of your choice (music should have a steady pulse) posters of stick people in a variety of statues (make your own, or download and print some from Adventures of a Music Teacher here)ĭisplay stick people, and decide on an order. I learned this from James Jackson, my Level I Orff instructor. Summary: Freeze dance doesn’t really require students to attend to the music in a meaningful way, and there are many movement activities that do!īefore you decide that I am a boring, no-fun grumpy-pants, here are six alternatives: If I want students to appreciate the music I choose, I want them get a true impression of the complete emotional journey. Interrupting music mid-phrase feels almost like a violent act to me.I want to move too! Partially for fun, partially for pedagogy, and partially for classroom management. I consciously and explicitly teach good sportsmanship before more or less every competitive or elimination game, and I don’t want to slow down my instruction for an activity that is not important to me. Freeze dance is more of a filler and transition game.Literally any adult in the building can run a game of freeze dance. I see my classes twice a week for a half hour, and I’ve got outcomes to teach. It’s not pedagogically valuable to me beyond the first few weeks of Primary.competitiveness can lead to hurt feelings among friends and/or rivals.eliminated students can grow bored and start mischief.shy students feel increasingly nervous as the audience of non-dancers grows.
The more students eliminated, the more classroom management red flags are raised for me.Students are less adventurous in their creative movement if they are worried about being eliminated.I want my students to have fun and move around, but it’s not my preferred activity. It happens at every level, at every school I’ve ever taught in.Ī student asks, “can we play freeze dance today?” I’m always torn.
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