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Creative Movement |
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dancing, swaying,
stretching, moving
expressive, emotional,
inspirational, motivational, rhythmic, harmonic
music, beats, sounds,
vibrations
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Why Creative Movement? |
How to Enhance Creative Movement |
- it is a form of self-expression
- it increases self-awareness
- it develops storytelling skills
- it enhances music and art interpretation
- it improves muscle development
- it develops problem solving skills
- it builds confidence
- it increases body awareness
- it enriches interpretation skills
- it builds self control
- it is a form of communication
- it enhances a positive self-esteem
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- change the speed of movement (fast,
slow)
- change the space used: height, width
(big, little)
- change the force of the movement (hard,
soft)
- change the directions followed
(forward, left)
- move by oneself or with a partner or group
- use a prop (ribbon, bells etc)
- change the lighting of the area
- add music, rhythms, other sounds
- interpret music, a picture, a story, a
poem
- wear a costume
- photograph / videotape the dance
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enjoy, acknowledge,
encourage, accept
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Activities
- Interpret this picture by Monet.
Are you the wind? the people? the parasol? an emotion?
- Going on a Lion Hunt: incorporate varying levels of: speeds, directions,
height, rhythms to the movements
- Make a giant circle out of large elastic; hang onto the elastic and move
to the music, staying connected
- Statue molding: to the beat of a drum, change the position of your body
(attending to the rhythm)
- Create a new species of bird: what will it look like? how will it move?
eat? where will it nest? Be it.
- Tell a story without using words--focus on the emotions of the story
- Move to the rhythm of a drum, changing movements
- Create a giant machine: with each child being a different part, with a
different motion, and sound
- Dramatize clothes on a clothesline drying in the wind, being pulled at by
a puppy, falling in the mud
- Be popcorn popping, bacon frying, leaves falling to the ground in the fall
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