Dance Upon A time Movement Stories for the Feet & Tongue

Allow Tanya's effervescent enthusiasm and expertise to guide you through renewed thinking where dance is primarily about using the body as a means of exploration and expression and may include slumping, slithering, rolling, bouncing and jumping. Learn how to assist children to interpret the thoughts and emotions expressed in language with their bodies. Tanya's approach challenges and engages the children's creativity within the secure environment of stories, some of which may be familiar and some entirely new.

Part I of the book provides foundation ideas and thinking to assist teachers and other adults to work independently and creatively with children in the dance or movement medium. Knowing why things are taught assists in knowing what and how to teach. Part II of the book gives four great stories which may be used, among other things, as full-bodied, inside-day warm-ups. Part III demonstrates how movement stories develop and educate children beyond the realm of the physical by engaging their thinking and emotions as well as their bodies. Through each story children explore various elements within certain concepts. For example, through participating in Racy Rabbit and Slow Tortoise, children may explore the element of speed within the concept of time.

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