2Faced Dance transports Year Six through a history of dance

In preparation for our Creative ConneXions show My Generation, we invited 2Faced Dance to run three workshops for our Year Six pupils. 2Faced Dance are a professional, all male dance company, who fuse many dance styles including contemporary, ballet and street dance.

Tom Pipes, who led the workshop, introduced the pupils to different dance techniques, from street dance, breakdance and tutting. The children practised these techniques in the warmup and then went on to build them into their class dances. Tom was very keen for the children to step out of their comfort zone and try something new.  He went on to stress the importance of sticking with the choreography as it would get easier with practise. The children worked industriously in pairs and small groups to come up with phrases of movement linked to their themes.

The overall theme for Year Six is pop music and dance from the 80s, 90s and present day, 6B’s dance is a modern-day piece, featuring a dance technique called “tutting”, which is where the dancers make shapes and angles with their arms and hands.  6HM’s dance is a fun-filled dance about the battle of the boy and girl bands of the 90s.  Lastly, 6P’s dance is a look back to the 1980s, featuring Madonna voguing and breakdance which was big in that decade.

The children worked hard on their class dances and at the end of the day they felt proud of what they had achieved in such a short space of time.

We look forward to seeing how the dances develop over the next few weeks, ready for the performance next half term.