Friday, May 29, 2009

The Thousand Hands dance with Kindergarteners

January-February 2009. Fox Meadow KG dance classes, Quaker Ridge KG dance classes. Collaborating teacher: Diane Celentano.

I never thought that I would be able to teach the Saman dance (the Thousand Hands dance) to kindergarten students. Diane convinced me that it was possible, and she proved me right. The kindergarteners at Fox Meadow and Quaker Ridge spent some time in learning the Indonesian folk dance from Aceh ethnic group, the Saman dance. The instructions were broken down into a lot more simple steps than the usual ones, and to my surprise they were able to follow it. In fact, some groups performed it really well. It was very unfortunate that we were not able to find the channel to show the how great the kids in doing the dance.

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