Thursday, 5 June 2014

Wk 10: How do we move our Bodies?

Looking at how we move our bodies, dynamics within movement of the body.
In today’s workshop we looked at how the body moves using a key element in dance, which is Dynamics. Dynamics is apparently one of the hardest concepts to understand in terms of movement (McGill, I. 2014). For our last piece of dance in the workshop, we had to look at a musical ‘Matilda’s Revolting Children’. 
This song involved us as the revolting children meeting and greeting each other before class starts. We were split into groups of 3 and had to think of gestures that would be used in the everyday classroom or playground, to use in the overall dance performance. Our group concentrated on bullying and rejection of one “child” in the group, grabbing their bag and throwing it to other students. As pre-service teachers we must teach our students that negative gestures and bullying are not the correct way to treat others. Teaching students this dance gives them a different perspective on how to treat others.
References:

McGill, I. (2014, May, 15). Creative Arts 3: Dance Workshop (Note of tutorial).

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