School physical activity dance lesson - Students learn about dancing the OPPOSITES

(Black Horse and the Cherry Tree) MUVE offers a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP) that is free for anyone to use. The method and the different dance activity games are detailed at the website http://www.MUVE.com. To learn how to activate students with short dancing-breaks during the school day, and/or to set up an after school activity program with MUVE check out the spontaneous group dancing games here http://www.muve.com/muve-dancing-games/.

This particular video shows Maggie teaching the “OPPOSITES”. Students learn to express spontaneous movements inspired by opposing concepts like stiff/loose, big/small, high/low, slow/fast, heavy/light, happy/sad, front/back. Of course you can use any kind of opposite or let the students create their own opposite pairs before you start the dance. The above concepts have proven to be great inspiration tools. If you want to use visual cues to help boost creativity and excitement check out the many tools available from MUVE http://www.muve.com/tool-box/

This group is dancing on the “TRIANGLES-Grid” with Maggie leading the whole class in a dance-along to demonstrate various movement options. Two student volunteer share the Center-TRIANGLE, as all others follow loosely. The games is called “Follow the MUSE in the Center,” and is often used at the beginning of a session. Following the MUSE (lead-dancer) is a great way to help students explore movements they would not necessarily think of doing and thereby widening their repertoire of possibilities. Learn about the MUVE lessons and group activity lesson plans at http://www.muve.com/school-muve/