The Kinesthetic Loop

 Creative Dance for Learning

Creative Dance

• Creative dance improvisation
  • Kinesthetic sense-process that regulates and guides voluntary movement
  • movement awareness and decision-making
  • Movement forms-patterns that are aesthetically fulfilling 
• The link between nature and movement
• Functional aspect of movement/health reasons 
• Senses
  • movement awareness
  • sensing
  • feeling
• Subjective-senses
• objective-feelings
• Kinesthetic experience-loop of communication between moving parts of the body to the brain
  • Become aware of the communication and actually express it through your body movements
• Self-identification with experience, you could be aware of your emotional relationship/information coming to you via the senses
• Any kind of sensory awareness can prompt dance expression
• Rhythm through the elements of dance
  • force, time, and space 
  • abstract form

The objective of class: Students will use their creativity and spacial awareness to spell out the words with their body

Title: Dance It Out

Grade level: Juniors in High school

Assessment: If I can tell what words they are each spelling they did well in creating the shapes with their body within the space provided.