Body Language

Melanie Peter
Wednesday, December 4, 2002

Help children to become more aware of their bodies and their interactions with others by thinking about the different factors that make up the 'dance elements' To express themselves using movement, children need to learn how to combine the components of dance in different ways. Ask yourself: which parts of the body are involved? What actions are being performed? Where, how and with whom or what is the dancer moving? These dance elements, as they are known, are present in any dance, and the form they take will give the dance its particular character.