Word: clappings
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Sixteen teenagers in a circle run in place, snap their fingers, clap their hands under their legs as they lift them. Much giggling and groaning. Jokes about Jane Fonda. Stretch exercises on the cafeteria floor of P.S. 1. Julie, the staff leader, wears a sweatshirt reading NAGS HEAD, NORTH CAROLINA. Calls out directions: "Let's do knots." Kids divide into two huddles, all crossing arms, grasping one another. Entangled, they must work their way out by twisting until their knot unravels. "Anita's stuck again." Laughter. Julie: "Double duck-ducks, please." Kids on haunches in one large circle again. Hector...
Meanwhile, in an "All That Jazz" class at Peabody School, Cabot House resident Gigi M. Dopico '86 helps the dance instructor control a dozen three-to 13-year-olds on a particularly rowdy Friday afternoon. While the teacher shows the kids how to "roll-slap-clap-slap-roll" to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Dopico is busy one minute consoling a girl with a sore throat who can't dance, but who can run all around the auditorium, the next minute jumping around on stage, helping the smallest girl in the class remember when to clap and when...
...minutes to the gun. People were getting anxious. Two people in front of me were speaking a language I had never heard before. Some people began to clap their hands. I looked in the air and counted nine helicopters and two blimps. The excitement was building...
...most popular one goes: "hip za zoo za chik-a room ba zoo F. Skiddy Von Stade mister Fu (clap) Man (clap) Chu (clap, clap) teddy roo teddy ra teddy ruddy duddy fuddy duddy sis boom ba Harvard Harvard...
...dance entitled "Three Boys" is more a game in a school yard than a formal dance with conscious steps. It is about playing and skipping, fighting and pushing--all the essentials of a grade school friendship. Clad in appropriate jeans and sneakers, the young dancers run, jump and clap, acting out our own past lunchtime recesses...