Meet some of the students of Westminster Center School's choreography class of Fall 2008.These 1st through 4th grade students and I four times over the course of four weeks and explored different elements of dance such as shape, space, time, and effort, encouraging students think like artists and develop their imaginative capacity and ability to see in new ways.
The first and second graders learned about moving at low, middle, and high levels and created cycle dances about leaves, caterpillars and butterflies, and garden plants. The third and fourth graders worked together to create dances which explored different ways of moving over and under each other, as well as choreography based on ecosystems and different kinds of work they learned about during a recent fieldtrip to Fort #4.
They shared these dances with the entire school on November 4th during an all-school meeting. This project was funded in part by the Westminster Center School as well as Extending the Dance Map, a tri-state project in VT, NH, and ME that works to encourage and increase dance opportunities for students in rural schools.
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