The appendix is intended to give teachers ideas for teaching the dance elements within their regular dance units. They can spark ideas for developing other activities with a different theme. They can be extended to become entire creative dance lessons. The activities in this appendix are not intended to be used in sequential order. The dance elements should always be taught within a meaningful context.
Actions Explain to students that the completion of an action is as important as the action itself.
If one stops, one listens. Similarly, movement is not meaningful if it goes on and on. We have to feel stops and starts to make it exciting. Hide and seek would not be exciting if all we did was run. It is hiding, or the stillness, that makes it exciting.