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Name of Activity:
Space Jam Dance
Purpose of Activity:
To encourage students to enjoy dance, elevate the heart rate, and learn and practice different dance moves.Suggested Grade Level:
4th and UpMaterials Needed:
Tape or CD playerRecommended music:
Space Jam Soundtrack (3rd song on CD called "Space Jam") (from Amazon.com)Description of Idea
Cue up the third song on the Space Jam Soundtrack CD. It is called
"Space Jam". There are sixteen counts to every move in this dance.
There is an introduction period right before the music. It lasts about 16
seconds. Start the dance after that introduction period. (Students do not
use basketballs to dribble, they pretend to.)
PART 1: Begin by dribbling two times with
the right hand, then two counts with the left.
Continue dribbling for 15 counts. On the sixteenth
count, jump high and slam dunk.
PART 2: Immediately after the slam do a grapevine
right for four counts. Repeat left then right then
left again for a total of 16 counts. Clap on every
fourth count.
PART 3: Raise hands in the air and turn to the right
pivoting on the right foot. Wave hands in the air.
I call this party hands. Move to the rhythm. This
move lasts for sixteen counts. Try to face forward
on the sixteenth count.
PART 4: Bankhead bounce (put your hands
in front of your chest with closed hands--make a loose fist--and move the
arms from side to side while moving the shoulders up and down) forward four
counts then
back four counts. Continue forward and back again
for a total of 16 counts. On the 16th count, turn
toward the back and bankhead bounce the same way for
16 counts. Grapevine left for four counts. Repeat right then left
then right again for 16 counts.
PART 5: While facing to the back, start over by
dribbling with the right hand for two counts then
the left hand for two counts and gradually turn to
the right until facing forward again. Repeat steps
1-5 until the end of the song.

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