Affiliated with the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network
Announcement: As we navigate a leadership transition and focus on financial planning, our summer programming will center on Arts, Care, and Connection. This intentional pause in other activities will help strengthen our foundation as we prepare to relaunch our core Right Brain Initiative this fall—supporting students, schools, and teaching artists with renewed energy and focus. Arts for Learning Northwest remains deeply committed to making arts and creativity accessible to all.
A partnership with Arts for Learning NW (ALNW) and the Oregon Department of Education
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Using things found in the world around them (a book), students will make observations and then improvise moves that feel connected to their source inspiration. Developing creativity in dance requires experimentation and exploration using a variety of sources as inspiration for movement to represent personal and/or symbolic meaning.
Medium: Dance
Students will use a set of action verbs to explore ways of creating a movement vocabulary that expresses their ideas.
Medium: Dance
Students willl learn to feel comfortable in their body regardless of what they are expressing.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn how to use dance movement to express their feelings responsibly. students will identify emotions, and how they can use movement qualities like tempo and speed to release their feelings through dance.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn what it means to keep a beat, and then, what it feels like to stay on or off the beat.
Medium: Dance
Students will create a dance improvisation using that expresses how they feel when they are doing an activity that brings them joy. As a part of this lesson students will deepen their self awareness, explore DANCE MOVES AND ENERGY as creative tools, and create an improvisation expressing different kinds of feelings.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn how flow, gesture and isolation can help their bodies express their feelings to others. They will celebrate and express their unique individuality and ability to connect with others, and then see how their own individuality makes the ‘whole’ more beautiful, affirming their sense of belonging.
Medium: Dance
Starting with an individual seed movement, students will collaborate to create a sequence of movements and a full choreography to demonstrate their class culture.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn that being taught Hawaiian hula dance is not just learning a dance form but will be learning about the Hawaiian language and culture.
Medium: Dance
Students will develop the ability to coordinate dance movements with drum rhythms. Students will learn the value of collaboration, patience, and offering positive reinforcement to themselves and others.
Medium: Dance
Students will explore dance through observation, embodiment, and improvise elements from nature and shapes through movement, and connection.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn a Sanskrit poem and matching hand gestures, then work together using these gestures to make a dance that includes the whole group.
Medium: Dance
Students will select and analyze a simple text, for example idioms, to decide how they want to tell the story of that text using movement only. They will ask another classmate for feedback and decide which feedback to use to more clearly convey their meaning
Medium: Dance
Students will learn how music affects quality of movement. They will also explore how movement and physical cues can indicate emotion in themselves and others.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and use their observations to express themselves through their own dance movements. Throughout the lesson, students will develop a sense of individuality and learn what makes them unique.
Medium: Dance
The focus of this lesson is to teach students Observational Thinking as a way to give feedback in an open-minded, curious, and non-judgmental manner. Students will create short dances based on a personal emotion, watch each other perform, then share observations and feedback to help each other see how their moves are understood by an audience.
Medium: Dance
In this module, students will explore the connection between their emotions and the world around them through movement. They will learn to identify various emotions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, and calmness, and express these feelings by associating them with the waves of an ocean—gentle ripples, crashing waves, and calm seas.
Medium: Dance
Students will explore the theme of fire and rebirth by embodying the mythological phoenix in dance. Students will practice safe dance techniques and learn choreography that emphasize dynamic and fluid motions inspired by flames and a phoneix's rebirth.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn basic dance skills by following the rhythm and tempo of the Aztec drum. Students will learn the steps of Xochitlquetzal (precious flower) dance.
Medium: Dance
Students will learn to express themselves through movement and the art of ballet. The guided videos will take them along the journey of a dragon and allow them to observe how different stages of the story make them feel.
Medium: Dance
Students will dance in a circle to three different pieces of music, changing their speed to match each song.
Medium: Dance
