Adventures in Space: Exploring Spatial Content in Dance with Alice in Wonderland

Adventures in Space: Exploring Spatial Content in Dance with Alice in Wonderland

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to understand and apply spatial content in dance, exploring levels, size, and directions to convey the intentions of Alice in Wonderland.

What do you already know about spatial content in dance and its relation to storytelling?

Introduction to Spatial Content in Dance

Spatial content in dance refers to the use of space, including levels, size, and directions, to create visually compelling and expressive movements.

Exploring Levels

Levels in dance refer to the height of a dancer from the floor and can convey different emotions or characters.

Playing with Size and Scale

Size and scale in dance involve the exaggeration or minimization of movements to create visual impact and depict characters or emotions.

Utilizing Different Directions

Dance movements can travel in various directions, such as forward, backward, sideways, or diagonally, to express different intentions and narratives.

Applying Spatial Content to Alice in Wonderland

Explore how spatial content in dance can be used to portray the fantastical and surreal world of Alice in Wonderland, capturing the essence of the story's characters and settings.

Interactive Activity: Character Movement Workshop

Students will embody characters from Alice in Wonderland using levels, size, and directions in a guided movement workshop.

Creating a Spatial Dance Narrative

Students will collaborate to choreograph a dance piece that visually communicates a scene or theme from Alice in Wonderland through spatial content.

Conclusion and Reflection

Reflect on the use of levels, size, and directions in dance to convey the intentions of Alice in Wonderland, and share insights gained from the lesson.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.