Free Young Audience of Houston Performance
When: Tuesday, August 5, from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m.
Where: Near the Kathrine G. McGovern Texas Wetlands
Join us for a free performance, Dance of the Insects, by Becky Valls & Co. This performance is open to all ages but geared for ages Pre-K to third grade.
About the Performance
The study of entomology is so much fun when dancers Joani Trevino and Michelle Reyes convey the characteristics of insects through Becky Valls’ striking choreography with music, costuming, and audience participation. Accompanied by the clever poetry of Paul Fleishman’s A Joyful Noise, these professional dancers demonstrate through movement a caterpillar’s metamorphosis and the social behavior of bees. Other dances include the Busy Ant, Firefly, Phantom the Flying Cockroach, and Two Too Many Ladybugs.
Students perform a rhythmical repeating pattern to learn the parts of the insect, make body shapes to review the stages of the butterfly’s life cycle, act out the many jobs or the worker bee, and much more. Kinesthetic learning is the goal of this arts-integrated program.
