Exploring Poetry Through Dance

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Exploring Poetry Through Dance

• By Teresa Slaughter VonRippon

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PRESENTATION AGENDA

• INTRODUCTION
• The New York State requires all dance educators
  to teach literacy as part of their curriculum
• BODY
• Learning to dance through Poetry
• Poem- Langston Hughes
• CONCLUSION

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• Teaching children literacy through movement
• Exploring and experimenting feelings and moods,
  through movement using poetry
• Children can learn
• how to read and write
• how to recognize and reproduce shapes and
  patterns, developing the left to right
  laterality
• how to communicate with others
• how to express themselves

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• Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
• To fling my arms wideIn some place of the
  sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is
  done.Then rest at cool eveningBeneath a tall
  treeWhile night comes on gently,Dark like
  me--That is my dream!To fling my arms wideIn
  the face of the sun,Dance! Whirl! Whirl!Till
  the quick day is done.Rest at pale evening . .
  .A tall, slim tree . . .Night coming
  tenderlyBlack like me.

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Poetry and Dance
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conclusion

• Learning poetry through dance can contribute to
  developing adolescence emotional and social
  skills.
• Enables children to learn in a variety of
  different ways.
• Enables children to learn to communicate and
  express themselves according to their individual
  needs.