Ten Minute Challenge Simile Shapes

Start by watching the video which shows what happened when Musée de la danse came to Tate Modern.

Select a selection of the video to share with your pupils at the start of the ten minute challenge.

Repeat

Play a game passing a movement around the room, maybe a blink, a hand gesture, or a body wiggle.

One pupil mimes a simile and other students pass the movement to each other, copying and repeating until the movement ‘catches like a fire’ around the room.

Adapt

Use words instead of movements, with one pupil starting a sentence and another completing it.

Start with, flicker like a …?

Try repeating the descriptive words or sentences quietly and loudly, playing with sound, to pass them around the group.

Extend

Challenge your pupils to bring a simile in from home for the rest of the room to copy (this could be something their family says or their own invention – we like ‘bath like a jelly fish’).

Make the movements get bigger and bigger or smaller and smaller.

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