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by Rebecca and Lindsay (This website is best viewed in Microsoft Explorer)
This website contains the breakdown of a creative dance developed based on the use of an imagery idea, phrases of a piece of music, action words and a task progression. The students' movements are refined using Laban's movement concepts (Wall and Murray, 1994). The website breaks the dance down based on connection to the BC IRP for PE (K - 7), analysis of the dance (Boorman, 1973), the dance task progression broken down into sections, management suggestions from teaching the dance, assessment ideas and finally reflections from the teachers teaching the content. About the creators of this website... Rebecca and Lindsay created this website as their major project for their Creative Movement class during their professional year at the University of Victoria. We taught the Uninvited Guest dance to a grade two class of 22 students. The experience was successful and the children really enjoyed being creative. The process of creating, teaching and performing this dance was rewarding for us. Through regular reflections and refinements of the lessons, the creative movement unit has grown into what you see in this website. References Boorman, J. (1973). Dance and language experiences with children. Don Mills, Ontario, Longman Canada Ltd. Carline, Sally, M.A. (2005) Children Who Dance: A Handbook for Teachers of Elementary School Children. Department of Elementary Teacher Education of University of Alberta. Wall, J. and N. Murray (1994). Children and movement. Dubuque, IA, Wm. C. Brow Publishers. Resources web.uvic.ca/~thopper/Annotations from Boorman's Teaching Dance in the First Three Grades:
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