NDI at Home: Body Percussion (Sep 23, 2022)
From National Dance Institute · 2022
5 min1st2nd3rd4th5thDanceMusic
Summary
A body-percussion class from National Dance Institute (NDI). Dancers make rhythm with claps, stamps, and pats, echoing patterns and keeping a steady beat with their whole bodies.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Body percussion turns your whole body into an instrument.
- Which body sounds did you use — claps, stamps, pats, snaps?
- How did you keep the beat steady with the group?
- Can you make up a new two-part rhythm of your own?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: rhythm, beat, pattern, body percussion, echo.
Try it: Dance along, then create a four-beat body-percussion pattern and teach it to a partner using call-and-response.