lion king

Animals on the MOVE: Inspired by Lion King on Broadway 
Musicals are the embodiment of the Visual and Performing arts.  It is one of the few places where you can be immersed in a story through music, dance and art through the magic of theater.  Today you will get to watch a variety of videos related to the third LONGEST running Broadway show, THE LION KING. The show opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Nov. 13, 1997. 
Many of you may have seen the animated movie but the Broadway production has dances that are very unique due to the amazingly creative costumes and elaborate puppetry created for this show. Now sit back and relax as you enjoy a video of “The Circle of Life” performed at the Music Awards Gala 2018. 
 
The Lion King - Circle of Life | Musical Awards Gala 2018 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOAsUWQJvo 
 
Optional Follow up videos: 
Learn a dance from the Lion King cast.  Produced by Get up and Go movement 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avf5QyUY1Bo 
 
Respond & Reflect: 
Now that you have seen the video of “The Circle of Life” think about how the different animals move. Each costume is an embodiment of the animal and the shows’ creators had to figure out how each animal should move.   
Can you list 2 or 3 animals from the dance? Describe how they moved? Try the motion(s) yourself. 
 
Create & perform:  
Now there are many other animals in our world. Can you think of 2 or 3 other animals that were not shown in the video? Try to create motions that are inspired by the animal(s) you have chosen?          There is a list of Locomotor and non-locomotor motions at the end of lesson) 
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Share your creation with us..... 
In your original dance try to include 2-6 motions inspired by animal. Make sure you have enough space and a clean background behind you when you take pictures/video. Dances should not be more than 6 motions in length. Feel free to repeat your dance two times if you want (1GB file size max). No audio is needed. 
******IF your parents give you permission- share that video to flip-grid - See the tab, on the cvesdvapa.weebly.com, that has MORE...and scroll down to the flip grid link for Flip-Grid Challenge.

Flip Grid Connection
https://flipgrid.com/9127ffda

 
Sources 
https://www.etonline.com/lion-king-turns-20-how-disney-musical-became-one-broadways-best-exclusive-90774 ​

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MOVEMENT LIST

​Locomotor Movement – Traveling
Climbing  Creeping   Crawling  Dodging  Galloping  Hobbling   Hopping    Jumping
Leaping  Limping  Marching  Plodding  Prancing  Rolling  Running  Sauntering
Scrambling  Scurrying  Skipping  Sliding  Sprinting  Staggering  Stalking  Strutting
Swinging  Trudging  Walking
 
Non-locomotor -Axial -Stationary
Balancing   Bending   Bouncing   Collapsing  Contracting  Curling  Dodging   Drooping  Expanding  Falling  Flopping  Hanging  Leaning  Pouncing  Rising  Rocking  Rotating  Shaking  Sinking  Sitting   Slouching  Spinning  Springing  Squirming   Swaying  Swinging  Tumbling  Turning  Twisting  Wiggling  Waving  Whirling
Other Movement vocabulary:
Glide, float, fly, soar, sail, swoop, slide, slither, plunge, dive, drift, climb,
Swim, lope, jog, trot, burrow, wallow, buck, rear, spin, explode, burst, bubble, melt, freeze, ooze, boil, seethe, simmer, swirl, crumble, crumple, crash, shelter, evaporate, shrink, shrivel, disintegrate, infiltrate




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