Dance & Play With Your Preschoolers

For preschool children 3-5 years old together with one adult guardian.

Imagine dancing with your preschoolers creatively while accompanied with live music including cello, piano, and percussion along with guided imaginative imagery.

Explore improvisational mind, body, and soul interactions with your preschoolers to creatively express the qualities of music with body movements and vocalization while feeling the elements of music with dance in a playful, improvisational, and interactive manner.

Goals:

- Personal expression, playfulness, joy

- Interacting;

- call- response

- imitation

- leading vs. following,

- expressing vs. listening,

- collaboration, compromise, support

- Experiencing rhythm through combined elements of music, voice/sound/pitch/intonation and movement/dance/gaits.

- Developing motor and sensory skills/perception

- Experiencing space, time, power, form in music and dance, and

- naming and recognizing these parameters with self, partner and space

- Process oriented learning