NDI at Home: Creative Movement (Sep 17, 2020)
From National Dance Institute · 2020
13 minPre-KK1st2ndDance
Summary
A guided creative-movement class from National Dance Institute (NDI), the nonprofit dance-education organization. An NDI teaching artist leads young dancers to explore movement inspired by music, words, and images — perfect for a follow-along in an open classroom space.
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All ages
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This National Dance Institute class gives students a full-body dance experience.
- Which movement was easiest for you, and which was the hardest?
- How did the music change the way you moved?
- What is one dance step you learned that you could teach a friend?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: locomotor (traveling) movement, non-locomotor (in-place) movement, phrase, warm-up.
Try it: Clear a safe space and dance along with the whole class. Afterward, invent a short movement phrase with a beginning, middle, and end, and show it to a partner.