Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Green fingernails
Dance to develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills
Student dance resource developed by The Arts Unit
Kindergarten to Year 4 dance
What will I learn?
Today we are going to learn a new dance. It's called the Green Fingernail dance!
You will be learning from choreographer, Virginia Ferris. She likes to be called Gin.
A choreographer is a person who creates dance.
You will:
learn movement sequences to create a dance
develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills
explore the elements of dance to vary movement sequences
perform dance sequences to music.
Welcome to the class
Duration: 00:34Before you begin
Set up your dance space so you have lots of room to move and dance safely.
Make sure there is nothing on the floor to get in your way.
If you are dancing with others, make sure you have enough room so you don't run into each other.
- Let's warm up
Are you ready to have some fun?
Before we dance, we always warm up to get our heart pumping and our bodies ready for action.
Watch the video and join in with Gin as she gets us warmed up.
2. Learn
Let's learn some fun dance moves!
Watch the video and join in with Gin as she teaches us the movements.
Be sure to listen to Gin's instructions as she will give you great tips and ideas to allow you to make each move your own.
You can also look at the images below to help you.
Learning the movements
Duration: 03:03
Green fingernails
Throw the money
Clap
Green fingernails cross
Hands in your pocket
Spin
Feel the fat cow
Travel
Pose
3. Combine
Let's combine the movements and try doing them all together. This is called a movement sequence.
Watch the video and copy Gin as she takes us through the movement sequence.
Video 2 – Put it together
Duration: 02:15
Fantastic! You are a great dancer.
Are you ready to try it a bit faster?
Video 3 – Double time
Duration: 02:094. Changing it up
Watch the video and join in the fun!
Gin will show us how the same movement sequence can be changed by travelling around a space and by adding other variations to our movements.
Video 4 – Changing it up
Duration: 02:37
5. Create
You might like to try the dance to one of your favourite songs. You will find a couple of our favourites below to get you started.
Don't forget to perform your dance for those around you.
Perhaps you can get your teacher or another adult to join in the Green Fingernail dancing fun with you!
Minions dance music video – Happy
Duration: 03:52Can't Stop The Feeling movie clip – Trolls
Duration: 02:24
6. Appreciate
Enjoy watching this video of students from the D'Arts workshop dancing with Gin to the Green Fingernail dance.
Dance with D'Arts – Green Fingernail dance
Duration: 01:04Well done, you've finished this Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Class!
We hope you enjoyed dancing with Gin and learning to be a choreographer!
Third-party content attributions
Girl with green fingernails © Sue Dawson, 2020, reproduced and communicated with permission. Provided all acknowledgements are retained, these images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia only.
Choreographer dancing 1-9 © Virginia Ferris, 2020, reproduced and communicated with permission. Provided all acknowledgements are retained, these images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia only.