I need dance ideas for a reacital with a theme of "the calendar"?

Question

all the holidays have been take and other options have to do with days of the week, seasons and weather. it is a large studio and mayny ideas have been taken. i still need ideas for begining tap classes and a level 1 ballet.

Answer 1

one suggestion, use the song "calendar girl" and have different girls come in for every month, dressed according to the season =)

Answer 2

The first recital I was ever in (age 3) had that theme! I danced ballet to "hopping down the bunny trail" for Easter. My cousin danced to "American pie" for The 4th of July and..."oh Mr. sun" for august/summer (a little kids dance) That might be work for tap. We danced to calander girl in the beginning. "Easy like Sunday Morning" would work for a day of the week.

Answer 3

Ancient Italian artists used to use the zodiac to represent the passing of the months (which is why you'll see the zodiac in some catholic churches in Europe) so instead of using a normal January-December, Sunday-Saturday, Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter sort of theme perhaps you could use Aquarius/Gemini/Taurus/Libra . . .
I'm not terribly familiar with the zodiac so I can't recommend songs. It could probably be Googled though.

Answer 4

Try to mix fall and winter since they are so close together, for fall make your dance dramatic, cuase fall has dramatic dark colors, and wear like orange and white considering it snows in the winter, and make you dance very frail and light seeming, since a snow fall is so delicate and it just slowly falls and sticks to the ground, so at the end of your dance slowly just lye your self on the ground and spread out ! And use classical songs, every classical song has a sort of theme, so for Fall look online and listen fot something a bit dramatic and breezy, and after that for winter find a song bold but delicate and dreamy! Since we all "dream" for a white Christmas, and we dream for a guy to kiss under mistletoe! Its perfect!

Answer 5

How about something along the lines of "Girl for All Seasons" from Grease 2? More dancing of course...

Answer 6

um we did that theme a few years ago at my studio and we did like a few songs for each month.

-first our opening number was CALENDER GIRL the actual song, and then we started with january and did like the song SNOW then a couple others,
-february just do a love song for valentines day,
-march we did an irish tap dance for like st. patricks day,
-april i think we did an easter song,
-may we did the HOOL-A-HOOP song,
-june we did SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER or whatever its called,
-july we did like AMERICAN PIE,
-august we did SCHOOL DAYS and wore like 50s costumes,
-september we did a song about birthdays,
-october we did THRILLER, MONSTER MASH, all that,
-november we did AUTUMN its a song with no words, and we did TURKEY TROT,
-and december we did ALL I WANT FOR XMAS IS YOU, and other xmas songs.

if that helps i hope it does.

Answer 7

perhaps the four seasons by mozzart. could be a good ballet piece. perhaps something by the beach boys like surfing usa for the tap which can be for summer

Answer 8

In all honesty that is extremely cliché. Did your teacher give you the idea? But to answer your question, it would have to come down to your creativity in the routine, not costumes.