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Dance Instructor Elizabeth Hughey worked with several classes of students to create a series of dances for the New World Remix project. Each of the dances was designed to fit with and illustrate themes in the Multimedia Exhibit.
EXAMPLES : a dance called “the rainbow” fit with the rainbow sculpture that the students in the audience helped to build, and another dance illustrated character qualities such as friendship and resilience that fit with the idea of life’s kit bag.
These dances comprised a performance that served as an orientation to the interactive Multimedia Exhibit for the Covert Public School students, and the dances were also performed for severely multiply impaired students at the Van Buren Intermediate School District (ISD) Learning Center.
Ms. Hughey’s approach to dance instruction:
I am trained in and teach in a diverse range of dance
styles, from Modern to Jazz to Ballet to Celtic, and each of these styles
have their roots in different cultures and worlds that have mixed with
one another to create new forms of movement and expression. By dancing,
students can experience a diversity of New World cultures influencing
the movements of their very own bodies. Through creative movement work,
they can explore their own movement ideas (cultural transformation on
an individual scale). I believe exploring the process of creating movement
allows the student to express opinions and emotions and supports the individuals
self worth. The study of an art’s discipline such as dance challenges
the body and the mind. The pursuit of structure and knowledge in dance
technique teaches the student patience and builds confidence. A student
creating from their own ideas is exploring the depth of their own human
spirit, allowing their imagination to guide them. I teach to ensure the
cycle of dance as an expression of spirit continues, in those I teach
and also myself.
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