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Created by
  
Dominique Jolin

Original network
  
Treehouse TV

First episode date
  
16 September 1996

Network
  
Treehouse TV

Genre
  
Educational television

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Country of origin
  
Canada

Picture format
  
4:3 full screen

Final episode date
  
6 September 2015

Program creator
  
Dominique Jolin

Casts of 4 Square, a Canadian television show for kids, wearing a combination of color yellow and orange outfits.

Running time
  
5 minutes (ungrouped episodes)30 minutes (grouped episodes)

Original release
  
16 September 1996 – 6 September 2015

Similar
  
Roll Play, Treetown, Toopy and Binoo, Ants in Your Pants, Wee 3

4 square theme song


4 Square is a Canadian children's television series. The show consists of 4 different segments. Each segment has its own coloured backdrop, with the actors wearing the contrasting colour. The show was often divided up and only one segment is aired as filler (between two longer running shows).

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One of the casts of 4 Square, a Canadian television show for kids, wearing all blue outfits with an orange background.

4 square climbing treehouse video


Rhythm Segment "Blue Square"

Casts of 4 Square, a Canadian television show for kids, wearing all blue outfits and green shoes with an orange background.

The rhythm segment is hosted by the Beat Team (Ingrid Gaynor, Stephanie Hyppolite, Roney Lewis, and Emma Schellenberg), a group of four young people wearing bright orange sweatshirt and sweatpants. One by one, they all introduce a verbal rhythm with certain sounds or words (for example, "zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip"), and then they combine their individual rhythms to make one intricate rhythm.

Poetry Segment "Green Square"

Casts of 4 Square, a Canadian television show for kids, wearing all blue outfits and green shoes.

The poetry segment features a woman (Helen Farmer, or in later episodes, Pay Chen) dressed in mainly purple, and a child, also dressed in purple. She recites a poem while giving certain words a hand sign, teaching it to the younger child, the child says the poem back with the learned hand signs, and then they both say it together with a chorus of kids, encouraging the child to say the poem with them. This is the only Four Square segment to feature live children in the scene.

Movement Segment "Orange Square"

One of the casts of 4 Square, a Canadian television show for kids, wearing all blue outfits and raising her hand with an orange background.

The movement segment features four people from the Toronto dance troupe Corpus, dressed in blue spandex outfits with green shoes, knee pads and elbow pads with the females wearing a pleated skirt. A leader known as Captain Hup or Captain Huppette will direct the other three members to do three certain movements (for example, "Bianca, cross-country ski; Metito, cross-country ski; Rufus, cross-country ski"). Finally, after repeating the movement one by one and asking the viewer to try to do it, everyone does them in unison. The original cast featured David Danzon as Captain Hup, Sylvie Bouchard as Bianca; Ray Hogg as Krankovich; and Anand Rajaram as Ludsu. Subsequent casts featured Rachel Harrison as Captain Huppette, Michelle Black as Pippa, Michael Caldwell as Rufus, and Rob Rementilla as Metito.

Song Segment "Purple Square"

Casts of 4 Square, a Canadian television show for kids, wearing a combination of color yellow and orange outfits.

This is the part where a group of four people called the 4 Tones sing with four puppets called the Do-Whas. The Do-Whas represent the part of the song where the viewer can sing along. This is encouraged by the phrase "Do what the Do-Whas do" to which the Do-Whas say "Do what we do". Some members of the 4 Tones include Starr Domingue, Kellylee Evans, Alison Neale, and Chantelle Wilson.

References

4 Square (TV series) Wikipedia