Cross-Mirroring Dance

This piece evolved from a locomotor/nonlocomotor dance to an experiment in cross-mirroring. The A section is the above melody, and the B section is the mirroring part. I usually have counter-clockwise-facing person lead the first 16 beats of movement and the clockwise lead the second 16 beats before the melody returns. You can watch the Cincinnati Orff chapter perform the difficult version below. 

Cross-mirroring is shadowing, but facing the person you are shadowing so you both move right arms at the same time. I meant it to prepare students for the recorder, but Olivia Ramirez used it in an amazing way with her kindergarten students as a preparation for Bow Wow Wow!