Two: Dancing

Dancing has grown as expected as Mickey Cake-making and Thursday Bread.  Sometimes we dance in the kitchen while we wait for the cake to bake.  Sometimes we dance in between the making of the dough and it's rising.  When we do this we dance around the whole school in all the nooks and cranny's and its FUN.  Today we decided to take the music outside.  We started with a 'dance class'.  Lila showed me a few moves she learned from her own dance class out in the world.  She taught us how to do 'The Flamingo' and "Switchy Legs' and also how to do "Rainbow" moves.  Keldon also shared his "Monster Move".  Dance class inspired a very dramatic Swan Lake large dance group around the backyard and onto the grassy area.  Unfortunately the video camera wasn't available to capture the event.  BUT it was available to capture these beautiful gems of gentle, joyful partnership.  Enjoy and thank you to Tracey Dengler (Sophia's mom who was subbing with us) for capturing this play I was immersed in with the children.  Liz

So showing off my own dancing skills is a little embarrassing ;) yet among the children I dance to be playful.  What we 'the children and I do together' is the stuff of our relationship.  And dancing in partnership, following, leading and interpreting moves with another person exercises trust, listening, understanding, flexibility, and willingness to share.  This is Ayush and Mo's second turn dancing together and you can see they have grown knowledgeable of each others moves, they are a little more fluid.  Eve and I are newbies and don't quite understand each others gestures yet we work to remain connected and adapt as the dance goes on.