The Finale!
Week 5 As we approach our final weeks of the course, it was interesting to see our growth in understanding how dance can be integrated throughout the curricula. Our final assignment for the class required our groups to develop our own lesson that integrates two subjects. Thus far, I have witness dance and health and dance and science being combined within each other through the past two presentations. It was interesting to participate in these lessons because they provided me with an experience of how my students would interact if I were to design a similar lesson. During these presentations, I have realized the movement needs to come from within to encompass an abstract feeling. As our instructor mentioned, movement is not miming a song's words but taking the words and expressing the emotion they create from within. This comment resonated with me because my go-to moves that many students and teachers encompass follow the song's lyrics and represent an element of miming.