Creativity in Education - Brazil

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Program

  • Type of Program: Musical movement and dance education
  • Age Served: 4 to 12 years
  • Funding Sources: Private
  • Presenter: Rosario Villisana-Ruiz and Natalia Federova (Directors/Instructors)
  • Address: Rua Comendador Joaquim Dias, 146
    Colina do Sol, Centro, Pelotas RS, Brazil 96020-410
  • Telephone: 415-587-0802
  • Email: [email protected]

Program Purpose

Our goal is to present a viable musical movement and dance method that can readily be incorporated into a variety of programs as a means of meeting the need for healthy physical and artistic development of the young child.

Program Description

Natalia Fedorova and Rosario Villasana-Ruiz present the basic ideas of the Musical Movement and of the Dance Art of Isadora Duncan. These ideas are illustrated by movement/dance: very short dance classes. The second part of the performance includes the real dances of Isadora Duncan and the new dances, which were created by dancers themselves, using the Musical Movement method. These new dances were created for music by composers from the past: Vivaldi, Bach, Pachelbel, Telemann, Rachmaninoff and also for music by composers from the present Ivan Jevtic and John Willams.

The Musical Movement method was created, using

  • Ideas of Isadora Duncan about the free dance and about the connection between dance, nature and music;
  • Gymnastic/dance of Dalcroze (Dalcroze Eurhytmics) and of Delsarte (Delsart System Expression, the cultivation of body);
  • Psychological analysis by Vigodski and Teplov (psychology of art, of creative works of children ).

The arts have been used as a therapeutic process for healing and as a way to bring about a harmony of spirit and body. Our premise is that incorporating this as a normal and regular part of education is both preventative and integral to quality care. According to Isadora Duncan: The dance is the most natural and beautiful aid to the development of the growing child in its constant movement, and only that education is right which includes the dance...It is one of the great truths that what it is impossible to teach the child through words will be learned easily through the language of movement.

Most Unique Program Feature

The uniqueness of our method consists of the principal aim: development of the children for creative work, using the method, which permit s us to teach children to create the dance composition. Therefore, the uniqueness of our program consists in that the authors presented the dance, which was created by themselves. The outer uniqueness of our program, is included the real dances of Isadora Duncan. We can show the Isadora Duncan dance, witch has passed from she to disciple, from teacher to students.

Edited by Michael Kalinowski