Dancing With the Creative Process:
How to incorporate standards-based dance and movement
activities in classroom learning and assessment
John Morris, Dancer, Educator, Teaching Artist
Workshop Details
This experiential workshop will guide arts teachers and teaching artists through a series of powerful yet simple creative movement and dance making explorations that are standards-based, and well suited to integrate with any content area. You will learn basic movement tools and a dance making activity that you can implement – no dance background needed - to help your students explore classroom content and engage in creative problem solving together. Teachers of all arts disciplines are welcome. Grades PK-12 All Educators
Presenter Bio
John Morris is a dancer, educator and teaching artist. Additionally, he has a background in large-scale arts assessment and creativity research. Born and raised in Maine, John has recently returned after living in New York City for many years, as well as spending four years in the Shetland Islands in the UK. When not focused on dance, John works as a personal development coach.
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Outline & linked resources
Introduction
• Creative dance movement
• Your background, my background
Warm-up – Movement Circle
• Breathe/shake/sound
• Name shape, copy
• Copy a shape and pass a new one
• Pass high, middle, low shapes
Walking Exploration of Dance Elements
Discuss/review Dance Elements handout – ways to integrate
Dance Making Activity
o Create opening shape
o Explore stimulus focusing on three of the elements
o Transformation
o End in new shape
Show and Discuss
• Show 2 times
• Viewers comment/dancers describe
Assessment Issues
• Dance related
• The standards Q & A