Creative Dance 

According to Cone (2009), ‘creative dance leaves the vision of the dance to the young people’. This ensures that the idea of  dance remains solely the child’s and that the lesson remains fun, safe and a child lead activity.

“Children should be able to compose, perform and appreciate dance.” (Smith-Autard, 2002)

After the lecture, we spent some time with Zara practising our group dance routines which we made up using the 10 basic skills and also the class ‘Halloween’ dance that was created the previous week. This whole idea of today’s session was to encourage individuals to be as creative as possible when a stimulus was provided.

Each group was provided with a list of common dance terms, such as ‘hammer time’, and had to create a dance move from their own interpretation for each term. Furthermore, we then had to put all of those moves together into a small routine.  It was interesting to see how every group’s interpretation was different after being given the same stimulus. Once all of the groups had practised their routines, we then as a whole class performed our Halloween dance, plus our groups small routine all together to the song ‘Timewarp’.

Below is a short clip of my group performing the small routine we created.

References

Smith-Autard, J. M. (2002) The art of dance in education. 2nd ed. London: A. & C. Black.