DANCE DANCE DANCE

We had a guest teacher come to Longview and teach a couple of Modern dance classes to the students. The students engaged in the dance and participated following different body movements and gestures. They learned about the space around them and how there bodies could be moved to manipulate that space.

Before the dance class the students participated in a clay modeling activity to express dance in a solid form. The students were asked to express 'dance' through clay with the only rule being that it had to relate to their own interpretation of dance. They were also given a sheet of construction paper to create a dance floor for whatever they created. The students ended up with some very interesting takes on what dance meant to them. Some examples were a couple of ballerinas, a dancing bear, Michael Jackson, some disco dancers, an i-pod, and even a singing turtle.