Farewell to Halloween Dance
By Shannon and Valerie

Introduction

Dance Analysis

Section 1

Section 2 

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Management Suggestions

Assessment Strategy

Teacher Reflections

Dr Hopper Website
 

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 choreographers...

Shannon Titterton and Valerie Wasden created this website as their culminating project for EDUC 445 Creative Movement with Dr. Tim Hopper.  The process involved creating a task progression based on a theme that was then taught to our peers.  Using the feedback from our peers and after much reflection we refined our Farewell to Halloween Dance to the needs of the 20 grade ones that we had the amazing opportunity to mold into creative movers.   

References

Boorman, J. (1973). Dance and language experiences with children. Don Mills, Ontario, Longman Canada Ltd.

Bunting, E.  (1990).  In the haunted house.  New York, NY, Clarion Books.

Wall, J. and N. Murray (1994). Children and movement. Dubuque, IA, Wm. C. Brow Publishers.

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