Resource - Creative Movement to Express Global Issues - Demonstration Classroom Video

In this cross-curricular lesson, Grade 8 students express their knowledge of and feelings about global issues through dance techniques such as bodystorming and flocking.

This video is part of the 2011 Learning through the Arts Video series created by Curriculum Services Canada, in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Education, and is posted with permission from these agencies.

12:07 in length.

Recommended Resource: World on Fire / Un monde en feu

In this unit, students will use social justice issues as a stimulus for dance. Through movement activities, students will explore power in relationships and how the elements of dance can be used to communicate and create a dance piece about a chosen social justice issue.

Dans ce module, les élèves utiliseront les questions de justice sociale comme stimulus pour la danse. À travers des activités de mouvement, iels exploreront le pouvoir dans les relations et la manière dont les éléments de la danse peuvent être utilisés pour communiquer et créer une pièce de danse sur une question de justice sociale choisie.