Hip Hop with Mina

Today straight after play the Senior Class and the year 5's went up to the multi purpose room to do a hip hop class with Mina. Mina is a break dancer originally from Sydney, she dances in some famous music videos including some by Stan Walker.

When we arrived she asked us to say our name, age, a sport we liked and a super power we would like to have, some answers were - to be able to fly, to be a shapeshifter or to be very strong. Then we started to warm up by doing a series of running, jumping, and sliding moves.

We then did some moves like the running man, and the six step. After that we moved onto some moves to sit down, we could either choose to do the knee drop, or the corkscrew. In the knee drop you put your foot out the side, tucked it behind your knee, and sat down on your foot, if you let your foot come out of the back if your knee you could shatter your knee. 

We did a breakdancing combo of our sit, the six-step, and the baby freeze- Mina would say to us "keep your face off the floor!" .

To finish it off we did freeze, using body isolation (using only one part of our body), and did some dancing in circles and lines, we then re asked the superpower question and the ideas were much more creative. 

We all had a great time at our breakdancing/hip hop session with Mina and want her to come back again.

Holly