Movement and Storytelling · Performing Arts

Dancing Our Feelings

Exploring creative movement and how dance can communicate ideas without speaking.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can we move like a growing flower or a stormy wind?
  2. 2What does a happy dance look like compared to a tired dance?
  3. 3How do dancers use the space around them to tell a story?

Common Core State Standards

NCAS: Creating DA.Cr1.1.KNCAS: Performing DA.Pr4.1.K
Grade: Kindergarten
Subject: Visual & Performing Arts
Unit: Movement and Storytelling
Period: Performing Arts

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