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Hello, everyone.

It's a pleasure to see you again.

I'm so looking forward
to dancing with you today,

as is Caitlin.

And we're excited that
we're going to share with you

this second part of the NBS 2022
Sharing Dance Choreography.

So let's think back in our minds to
where we finished at the end of part one.

So we had this beautiful
exploration of the space.

We made a connection
to our traditional territories,

to the place where we're
going to dance today.

And then we rolled up
through our bodies,

and we found a sense of
reach and openness

through our upper body,
observing the space around us.

So that's where we're going
to begin learning new material today

is from that point where
we've stretched out in the space.

And this is the first moment

we're going to hear the beat
of the music, which is fantastic.

So when the music starts,

you're first going to a pulse,
and then you'll hear the beat drop.

You'll hear an obvious "boom, boom, boom"

kind of the beginning
of our counting phrase.

So we're going to help you really hear
that point in time in the music.

Whether you're dancing
from a seated position

or from a standing position,

just make sure that you're
really grounded in the space,

that you're aware of your space
and the space of those around you.

And we'll get ready to have
a fun time learning together today.

All right?

Okay, let's get to it.

So, we have our arms out.

We're going to hear
the pulse of the music.

The pulse of the music
comes into our body,

so our knees are soft

and we're still looking around the space,
still exploring with this pulse.

Then we'll hear the beat
and we start to count.

So we count for eight,
one, two, three, four.

Explore for eight counts.

Beautiful, now I'm going
to keep that pulse in my body,

but the elbows are going to draw inward.

I'm even softening my spine,
and bending my knees

to create an inward curve.

Let's try that.
That takes eight counts as well.

So curving in for eight.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Keep that pulse going and reach out.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

And bring that in.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven and eight.

Okay, I think you get the idea.

So it's eight counts out,
eight counts to come in.

Expand and contract.

The last set,

rather than counting to eight
I'm going to ask you to count to six.

So there's a little bit
of a sneaky transition here.

We're going to go
one, two, three, four, five, six.

Then start again at one.

All right, so we're going to have to be
really clever and count together.

Let's practise that.

On one, I'm going to ask you
to reach your hands to the left.

On the six counts we'll expand.

Okay? So we go

one, two, three, four, five, six and one.

Fantastic, dancers,
let's do that one more time.

Ready, set, six counts, go.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Reach left.

All right.

Should I show you how that reach left
becomes the next movement?

From the reach left,

you're going to go tracing
across the space.

Make a big horizontal line across
and then bring it back in.

My arms are beside my ribs,
elbows to the back.

Good, now you do a mini version
of that same thing.

So we go shoo.

Yeah, it almost feels like,
maybe doing a record scratch.

Like we're DJ, do a little
teeny tiny pulse around circle.

Okay, so big circle first.

One, two, three, four, come back on six.

Circle, seven and eight.

That's our little circle.

Fantastic!

I think we should go to
the beginning of this section.

Try counting it through
to the little circle.

Remembering that we have that
stinky six-count phrase in the middle.

Okay, arms are open,
eyes are searching the space.

You hear the beat for one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven.

Bring it in for one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven.

Going out for eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two.

Bring it in on two,
three, four, five, six.

Next is the six count.

One, two, three, four.

Getting ready.

Go reach two, three, four, five,
six, circle, seven and eight.

All right, hopefully, that idea
of counting to six

and starting again at one worked out.

If not, not to worry,
we'll have lots of time to practise.

Let's keep going and learn
one more new movement.

So we did one, two, three,
four, five, six,

seven, eight.

The next movement I'm going
to give you two options.

We're going to do just a little party
in our upper body.

So my hands are in loose fists

and I'm going to explore
the beat of the music with my body.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Now here's where the option comes in.

You can either go, one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight.

Caitlin is going
to demonstrate that option

or you can go twice as fast.

Ya, pa, te, ta, Ya, ta, ti, ta.

So you get to choose.

The party is small for eight
and big for eight.

So the first one feels very internal,
very close to the body.

Let's try that eight.

Five, six, seven, eight.

One, three, five, seven.

Good.

Now the second set of eight is bigger.

So let's practise that with our bodies.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Go one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Depending on how you feel
maybe you're head gets into the mix

or maybe your head stays upright.

You can make this as free
as you'd like to feel.

It's your party.

If you're ready to add in some feet.

On the second section, the big section,

we take a step wide, wide, narrow, narrow,

wide, wide, narrow, narrow.

Okay, why don't we try those two parts,

either choosing my option
or choosing Caitlin's option.

Ready, five, six, seven, eight.

Small, one, three, five, seven.

Big, one, three, five, seven.

Good job everybody!
Very nice work.

So that comes after our sweep
with the arms.

Let's try that sweep with the arms
for one, two, three, four, five, six,

little circle, small party,

one,

and five.

big party, one,

and five.

Fantastic, dancers.
Really nice work.

I'm going to keep going
and add on a little bit more.

From there we're going
to do a scooping action,

a sense of gathering.

You could imagine that
you're scooping into water

or maybe scooping up some fog
or some kind of smoke

and you're letting that energy
pour over your body.

So I'm gathering with my arms,

I'm lifting up over head

and then I'm releasing
that energy over my body.

Beautiful, so that's going to take

four counts to lift,
four counts to release.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Great.

I'm going to remind you

that even though we're are learning
facing one another

this dance doesn't really
have a front and a back.

So when we're doing these scoops

we're going to travel in the space

and we can pick our own direction
or our own line of dance.

Looking around the room,

making sure that the space
is available to you,

we're going to pick four steps
walking forward

and four steps walking back.

So I go, one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

So moving in the space
and returning to my spot.

All right, let's try that same movement
now adding in the scooping arms.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Scoop, two, three, four,
come back, six, seven, eight.

Fantastic.

Hopefully you picked your own direction

but you were also being
very mindful of your friends

and of the space around you,
if you're dancing with others.

All right, so you pick
your direction for the scoop.

The second scoop
we're going to stay on the spot.

So first one travels

and releases.

Second one we stay on the spot
and release.

All right fantastic.

When we're doing this one on the spot,

you have a couple of options,
you can do one on the spot

or if you're feeling really energetic
you could do four, four quick ones.

One, two, three, and four.

Yeah, if you'd like to see that version

you can check out some of the other videos
that we have in the online space.

I'm going to demonstrate today
traveling and slowly on the spot

but I wanted you to know that
that was an option as well.

The way I'm going
to choose to do it, my version,

is going to be travel, two, three, four,

release, six, seven, eight.

On the spot, two, three, four,
release, six, seven, eight.

And Caitlin is going to show
two beautiful gathers

from her seated position.

Okay, so let's go back and review
what we've learned so far.

We do our pulses that come in

and come out.

They happen twice in

and then we remember
we have a six count phrase.

One, two, three, four, five, six,
we start again on one.

One, two, three, four, five, six,

little circle on seven, eight.

We do the small party for eight.

We do the big party for eight!

Then we have our scoop and release

and on the spot, our scoop and release.

Shall we count all that through together?

Let's give it a practise.

All right if you're feeling ready to try
facing a different direction in space,

feel free to do that.

If you feel more comfortable
facing me, that's fine too.

All right, here we go, arms out.

Five, six, seven, pulse.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Bring it in, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Take it out, two, three, four,
five, six, seven,

and gather, two, three, four,
five, six,

here's our six count, one, two, three,
four, five, six,

and one, two, three, four,
five, six, circle seven.

Little party, one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.

Big party goes one, two, three, four,
five, six,

getting ready to scoop
on one, two, three, four,

and release six, seven.

On your spot, scoop two, three, four,
and release, six, seven, eight.

Fantastic job, everyone!

That was really great.

We only have a few more steps to learn
to finish up this section of the dance.

So let's keep moving forward.

So next up we're going to swim.

I'd like you to swim
to your right side first.

So two arms to the right,
swim to the right,

two arms to the left, swim to the left.

Okay let's try that again.

Swim to the right,

and swim to the left.

Great.

Now Caitlin is going
to keep that slow swim,

I'm going to speed it up just a little bit
and do two to each side.

So Caitlin does one to the right
and one to the left.

I'm going to do two.

Let's give that a try.

One,

and two.

Fantastic.

So if you're working as a group
make sure you decide

which version you're going to follow

whether it's my version
or Caitlin's version.

Okay? So let's practise those two again.

Ready, set, swim to the side, swim,

and swim.

Beautiful, from here
we're going to flick--

since we went for a swim

maybe we have water on our hands
we need to get it off.

So just try that with me.
Flick towards me.

Flicking the energy.
Good.

So let's take that really loose feeling--

it feels like a throw maybe even

and let's take it on the diagonal.

So we're going high diagonal.

High diagonal.

Low diagonal.

Low diagonal.

Yeah, beautiful; four directions.

Up, up, down, down.

From here we're going
to grow slowly back up.

So we have counts
five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven is your highest reach.

Make sure that the reach
feels comfortable to you.

Maybe you're reaching slightly forward,

maybe you're reaching way over head

and on count eight, we're going
to release all that into a drop.

We're going to think about safety.

We're going to stay on our feet
or in our seat

but we're going to drop our energy,
(whoosh) quickly down to the floor.

Okay, try that again with me.

So I'll say five, six, seven,

on eight, without falling to the floor,

keeping our feet below us
or our seat below us,

we're going to release the energy down.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, and drop.

Fantastic and that's the end
of the new material

for this section of the dance.

So I think we should go back
and do a review from where we started,

which is when the music starts

to where we finished,
which is that reaching up.

To remind you, the new parts
we just added in

were swim,

and swim,

and flick, flick, flick, flick

and rolling up for four counts plus eight.

All right, let's go a little slower
than the musical timing

from the beginning
of this second section of the dance.

Okay, so arms are open,
we're listening for the music

and we hear the pulse,

then we start to count on one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Elbows in on one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.

Fingers out on one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.

Reach it in on one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.

Going out on one, two, getting ready,
five and six,

go one, two, three, four,
five and six, swirl seven, eight.

Little, one, two, three, four,
having fun, seven, eight.

Bigger, two, three, four,
five, six.

Good, scoop it up, pick your direction

and release.

One more on the spot

and release.

Good take a little swim to the side,

other side.

Ready to flick, going high, high,
low, low.

This is five, six, seven, eight

and one, two, three, four,
get ready six and seven and eight.

Fantastic work, dancers.

All right, I think we're ready
to give this a try with some music.

Okay everyone let's recall
where we finished the first section,

the section we learned last time.

We finished with the sense
of connection to the floor.

If you can reach down and touch the floor
with your hands, that's fantastic.

If not, you can also have
a sense of grounding

into your feet through the floor.

We're going to soften our gaze down.

You can either just have
quiet eyes or closed eyes

and we're going to have a deep breath
in (inhale) and out (exhale).

We're having this opportunity,
this moment,

this privilege of feeling
a sense of connection to the Earth.

Feeling a sense of connection to our body

and then you roll up slowly
through your spine,

eyes begin to open,
explore the space with energy,

floating arms,

reaching eyes, see the space,

and see your friends
if you're dancing with others

and listening for the beat of music.

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Two, three, four.

Bring it in.

Take it out.

Bring it in.

Take it out for six.

Ready set and one, two, three, four,

seven, eight, little.

Big.

Scoop.

Scoop again.

Good, swim.

Other side.

Flick!

Up.

Three, four, five, six, seven, drop it.

All right everyone fantastic work

learning this second section
of the choreography.

So I think now it's time
that we try to put

our first part and our second
part together.

So if you cast your mind back
to what learned in the first video.

We have our hands--
sorry we walk into the space

and we find our place

and this section is all about creating
the space and the energy

that we need to move
and connecting to our bodies

and to the places around us.

You're either going to place yourself
in the space and observe the room

or you're going to walk into the space
and find your starting position.

And then we'll let the voice
of the choreographer guide us

in taking some deep breaths

with our eyes closed or our eyes soft

in connecting down, feeling the land
and acknowledging

the traditional territories
we're standing on

and then rolling up and reaching.

And then that part two that we started
with the beat will kick in.

So how about we try together,
this part one and part two

with the voice guiding us
and moving into the music.

Okay, so find your starting place.

(Star) We invite you to come
into the space.

Walking to a place that feels good
in your body,

coming to a place of stillness.

Placing your palms together
in front of you

and rubbing your hands briskly,
generating energy

and then placing your left hand

on your belly

and your right hand
in the center of your chest.

Gently closing your eyes
as we breathe three times together.

Breathing in.

(inhale)

And exhale out.

(exhale)

Breathing in.

(inhale)

And exhale.

(exhale)

Breathing in (inhale) and holding,

and exhale, release the body
all the way down to the ground,

rolling down, palms on the floor

and acknowledging
the traditional territory

that you are dancing in today.

Rolling up slowly,

feeling the energy coming from the Earth,

up through our legs,
like the trunk of a tree,

and then reaching our hands
out from our center,

like branches on the tree,
eyes gently open.

Reaching out into the space,
seeing the space,

seeing the environment around you,

seeing other dancers,
if you are dancing with others today.

Taking it all in.

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(Star) We invite you to come
into the space.

Walking to a place that feels good
in your body,

coming to a place of stillness.

Placing your palms together
in front of you

and rubbing your hands briskly,
generating energy

and then placing your left hand

on your belly

and your right hand
in the center of your chest.

Gently closing your eyes
as we breathe three times together.

Breathing in.

(inhale)

And exhale out.

(exhale)

Breathing in.

(inhale)

And exhale.

(exhale)

Breathing in (inhale) and holding,

and exhale, release the body
all the way down to the ground,

rolling down, palms on the floor

and acknowledging
the traditional territory

that you are dancing in today.

Rolling up slowly,

feeling the energy coming from the Earth,

up through our legs,
like the trunk of a tree,

and then reaching our hands
out from our center,

like branches on the tree,
eyes gently open.

Reaching out into the space,
seeing the space,

seeing the environment around you,

seeing other dancers,
if you are dancing with others today.

Taking it all in.

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Fantastic work, everyone.

Great job today and we look forward to
continuing on with part three next time.

From Caitlin and myself, see you later!