Dance!!!

Think about the reading and the activities we did in class, as well as your own experience with dance in elementary school. Think about how this approach to childrens' creative dance might be different than studio dance (jazz, ballet, hip hop, etc.) or social dance - why do you think children's dance specialists might focus more on childrens' creative dance for education? How do you think you might use dance in your own teaching?

The dance we participated in during class was definately different than a typical studio dance class-which was not what any of us expected I think. In a social dance class, I'm not sure if we would have thought of different ideas and emotions and encorporated them into dance moves, or freeze frames. Creative dance helps children to relax and show emotions more freely-it isn't quite so scripted, it's all imaginative and no one is "wrong" or off-beat. I did have a LOT of fun doing the large circular group dance at the end of our lesson was a lot of fun, and I would like to encorporate those things into my classroom, but it may be fun to give children express themselves and have a time where they are allowed to pick what they want to do and express themselves, even though it is still in a controlled environment.