Time to Feel, Move, Express! – Dance

Ages: 5 – 8 (Grade K – 2)
Part 1 / Thursday December 3, 2020 / 1 – 2 pm
Part 2 / Thursday December 10, 2020 / 1 – 2 pm

Description: Participants will explore movement with award-winning dance artist, choreographer, and MamaDances founder, Eryn Dace Trudell, through games and improvisation structures designed for learning and applying concepts of space, timing and movement dynamics. They will be guided to create their own short dances (1-3 minutes), or group dances, that they can use to take regular body breaks from studying and sitting. Skills will be taught to enhance memory, focus energy, and acknowledge feeling while having fun with movement!

Materials: Paper and pencil and enough space for each participant to be able to spread his/her arms out and lie on the floor

Artist Bio: Founder and artistic director of MamaDances since 2006, Eryn Dace Trudell is a multiple award-winning versatile dance artist. For three decades, she has excelled as producer, dancer, choreographer, facilitator, teacher, researcher and entrepreneur. As a graduate of Juilliard and Masters student at Université du Québec de Montréal, her research investigates dance as a relational art and means of cultivating a sense of wholeness and wellness through the enhancement of kinaesthetic awareness, sensation and empathy – deepening connections to the self, to others, and the environment.

QEP Competencies

Dance: To interpret dances; To appreciate choreographic works, personal productions and those of classmates
CCC: Uses information, Uses creativity, Uses information and communications technologies, Achieves his/her potential, Communicates appropriately