[doorbell ringing] (children) ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Let's say it again.♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Now you are my friend.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪That's a word we all should know.♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪You can say it.♪ ♪Just say hello.♪ ♪♪♪ Hey!

There's Mr. Chuck!

Well, hello, friend!

Hello, Mr. Chuck!

♪♪♪ ♪Let's dance.

Let's dance.♪ ♪Let's take this chance to dance.♪ You know how to dance.

Everybody can dance.

It's just another way to move your body.

You don't have to have music to dance and you don't even have to move your feet.

♪♪♪ You could make up a dance using only your hands.

Sure you can.

How about like this?

♪♪♪ Very good.

You know you could even make up a dance using only your head.

Oh yeah.

We'll call it a head dance.

Like this.

♪♪♪ Hey.

Let's use our whole bodies now.

We'll use our feet and our legs and our arms and our hands and everything.

We can pretend to be different things that dance in different ways.

How would you dance if you were a robot?

♪♪♪ Or an elephant?

♪♪♪ ♪How would you dance would you dance if you were an elephant?♪ ♪How would an elephant dance?♪ Well, oh, we have to have a trunk.

Put his hands together like this and he would move swinging his trunk.

♪♪♪ ♪How would you dance if you were a robot?♪ ♪How would a robot dance?♪ I imagine with stiff legs and stiff arms like this.

♪♪♪ ♪How would you dance if you were a chicken?♪ ♪How would a chicken dance?♪ Oh, you'd have to have wings like this.

And it's legs would be scratching around with his feet at work.

♪♪♪ ♪How would you dance if you were a penguin?♪ ♪How would a penguin dance?♪ ♪♪♪ Well, that's the way some things would dance.

Maybe you can think of others.

(children) Hmmm.

♪♪♪ Hey.

Dance.

D-A-N-C-E Dance.

[laughing] ♪♪♪ [laughing] Hello again.

I'd like you to meet some friends of mine.

This Julie Knowles of the Memphis Dance Theater and these are some friends who came along to show us some really fun ways to exercise and move our bodies.

Julie, it's nice to have you with us.

Thank you, Mr. Chuck.

I'm really glad to be here.

In fact let me introduce our friends to you.

We have Ruthie... Braddock... Brantley... Chantella... and Rebecca.

Hello.

Well Julie, let's start at the beginning.

What is dance, and how is it a kind of exercise?

Well, Mr. Chuck, dance is a form of art where we use movement and music to help express ourselves.

Well can just anybody do it?

I mean we've all seen ballet dancers and other kinds of dancers on TV and in the movies.

But can little ones do it, too?

Oh absolutely, Mr. Chuck.

Dance is for everybody.

In fact, dance is one of the easiest forms of movement.

What's the first thing you learn when you start to dance?

Well, we talk a lot about good posture, Mr. Chuck, and learning how to use the correct muscles for each exercise.

Well what is good posture?

Good posture is learning how to hold your body upright and using all of the correct muscles.

(Judy) In fact, Chantella can show us an example of bad posture.

And now she can show us an example of good posture.

You see how she stands up very straight with her tummy pulled in and her chin held high?

Very nice.

Well I've heard dancers talk about warming up but what is that?

Well warming up is an important part of any exercise routine.

In fact, you want to warm up all of those big muscle groups like your arms and your legs before you begin any exercise but especially dance.

If you would like I can have Ruthie and Rebecca show you how to do some of those warming up exercises.

(Judy) First we start with our leg muscles, and we do lots of plies to help warm up those muscles before we do lots of jumps and turns.

It is important to also warm up our arms.

We do lots of stretches with our arms.

Sometimes even reach over and touch our toes.

That helps to stretch our legs out even more.

And finally, when we're all ready to start our dancing we have our nice warm up with our arms again and practice our very simple positions with our arms.

(Mr. Chuck) Yeah but I suppose to be really good at it you have to practice a lot, right?

Well of course.

Many of the dancers come to class several times a week so they can get very good at their dance exercises.

What does it look like when it all comes together?

Well when all of the movements and the music come together, not only is it great fun to do, but it's great fun to watch and very beautiful.

In fact why don't we have some of our dance friends show us what it looks like?

♪♪♪ Well Julie, thanks for being with us today.

And thanks to our dancers, too.

You all did such a wonderful job of showing us about dancing and exercise.

Thank you Mr. Chuck.

I had a wonderful time and our dance friends did, too.

Bye, Mr. Chuck.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

♪♪♪ (man) Hey, everybody!

Let's get ready for... One, two, three, four.

Everybody walk.

♪♪♪ Move your feet.

♪♪♪ That's good.

Now just do what the animals do.

♪♪♪ Move your head.

♪♪♪ Try this.

♪♪♪ Can you stand on one foot?

♪♪♪ [duck quacking] Now flap your wings and fly away.

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ (woman) Okay everybody let's stand up.

We're going to do our leaf dance now.

Way up on top of your tree, tippy, tippy toes.

It's a beautiful fall day.

The wind is very gentle and we're going to start your journey from the tree.

You fall off the tree and we're going to sway and we're going to swing.

It's a long journey so you can enjoy this beautiful day twirling and swirling and flipping and swaying and can you turn on one foot?

Beautiful.

Can you touch the ground and go back in the air and move around?

And when you're ready to fall to the ground How about some music?

♪♪♪ That was a beautiful leaf dance.

You all did a great job.

Beautiful leaves.

I want all the girls to stand up with their leaves and take a curtsy.

And the audience goes bravo!

And the boys stand up and the boys take a bow.

And the audience goes bravo.

Let's all do it together.

Girls curtsy and boys take a bow.

And the audience goes bravo.

I can do...spins.

♪♪♪ And I can do stomps.

♪♪♪ And that's all I can think of.

♪♪♪ I love to dance.

Even music that I don't like.

♪♪♪ My favorite kind of dancing is ballet.

♪♪♪ Oh, help I'm dizzy.

[tapping desk] (man) That's tap dancing?

With your feet.

[tapping desk] (man) Which do you like better, tap dancing or ballet?

Tap dancing.

(Man) You do?

Can you show me some?

♪♪♪ When your feet feel good you feel good all over.

Why I feel so good I'd like to move my feet a little.

You move with me, okay?

Let's do the hokey-pokey, okay?

Okay!

♪You put your right foot in,♪ ♪you put your right foot out,♪ ♪you put your right foot in and you shake it all about.♪ ♪You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.♪ ♪That's what it's all about.♪ ♪You put your left foot in,♪ ♪your left foot out,♪ ♪your left foot in♪ ♪and you shake it all about it.♪ ♪You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.♪ ♪That's what it's all about.♪ ♪You put your right hand in,♪ ♪your right hand out,♪ ♪your right hand in and you shake it all about.♪ ♪You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.♪ ♪That's what it's all about.♪ ♪You put your left hand in,♪ ♪your left hand out,♪ ♪you put your left hand in and you shake it all about.♪ ♪You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.♪ ♪That's what it's all about.♪ ♪Now put your whole self in,♪ ♪your whole self out,♪ ♪your whole self in and you shake it all about.♪ ♪You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.♪ ♪That's what it's all about.♪ Hey!

Let's give my friend, Maggie, a big hand.

[applause] (Mr. Chuck) Thank you.

♪♪♪ [crowd murmuring] [applause] ♪♪♪ [applause] Today, friends, we've had fun dancing and moving our bodies in different ways.

I wonder how many ways there are to dance?

I'll bet there are a lot.

I bet you can think of more.

So until next time, see if you can think of a new way to move to music.

Goodbye, Mr. Chuck!

Goodbye, Mr. Chuck!

Goodbye, Mr. Chuck!

Until next time, so long.

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