Creative Dance Approach

 Creative Dance Approach

Introduction: Students will come up with a move that they think describes them or their personality, everyone will stand in a circle and repeat each other's moves and names before their turn. This will allow students to remember each other's names and build a community as a class.

Warm up:  progressive movement from a laying position all the way to standing (laying, seated, mid level, standing)- increase intensity and utilizing different levels of movement 

Intro of Theme: our theme will be elements of nature so that students can utilize different textures and styles as they are coming up with their movement

Assessment: have the students pick elements in group and do choeography and perform it in front of each other (they should make two 8 counts), this will allow students to collaborate with others and develop creativity skills 

Cool down: reverse the warm up, have the students move from standing to laying and go from higher intensity to lower intensity, and end the class with a short meditation in the laying position for about five minutes