Dance Reflection 5:

Dance in Education Part 5

Agenda - Lessons to Improve our Understanding of Dance: 

• Colour Wheel/Energy Wheel 
• The Wave
• Colour Dance

Colour Wheel and Energy Wheel: 

• Choose a colour.
• Choose a verb.
• Create a quality (light, lively, strong, explosive, heavy, sustained)

-Red—travel

-Yellow- -jump

-Blue-melt.

Orange -turn

Purple – of power

Green – grow.

• As a person who has a natural colour deficiency in sight, this expectation of creating and presenting using feelings idea was difficult for me. 
  
  • While I think the actual lesson could help most students communicate their feelings and ideas, I think we forget that many students (males in particular) have a colour deficiency from birth
  • It would create for a more inclusive classroom environment for students with a colour deficiency to have shapes associated with the colours. 
  
  

Watch Out For That Wave: 

• Discussion/Demonstration: Combining our actions to the colour wheel. 
• We created groups based on our colour choice and demonstrated the different movements/feelings. 

• 4 people per group.
• A/B
• Teach the group your action.
• Decide together on a reaction.
• A=action
• B=reaction
  
• This was a fun exercise, as every student became the "subject matter expert" in their colour
• Students can feel the confidence they need to facilitate their dance in the group setting

Thats all for now! Looking forward to our field trip!