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"Watching a show : spectators emotions as a catalyst"
Simulating the act of watching a show in a theater can serve as a catalyst for dance creation. The tool 'Imagine Watching a Show' draws on everyday gestures—charged with emotional expression—to generate a sequence of movements.
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"Emoji cards : adding expressive layer"
Using emojis as inspiration can be a playful and effective way to generate movement or to add an emotional, expressive layer to one existing movement. Presenting a mood visualised by an “Emoji” card can help to alter the quality of dance and give participants a chance to explore emotional expression.
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"Emotions in Motion: Reflecting on Dance Together"
This experiential tool guides participants through a creative reflection process following a dance co-creation workshop. Through drawing, writing, or any form of artistic expression, dancers explore and share their feelings and experiences from the movement session. Designed for educators, professionals, and dancers of all levels, this tool encourages open emotional awareness and deepens the connection between body, mind, and community.
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"Text in Motion: Generating Dance from Emotion and Meaning"
This task explores how song lyrics or poems can serve as powerful starting points for movement creation. Dancers engage in activities that involve reading a text with different intentions—emotional, political—and then translating those interpretations into improvised movement. With the theme of love as its foundation, this tool emphasises the creative process of transforming spoken words into embodied expression, offering rich possibilities for co-creation, storytelling, and meaning-making through dance.
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"How to add emotion to movement"
In this video it’s described how adding an emotion to a movement can help participants use their full body and mimic and deepen the experience. Starting from movement or emotion is then the participant's choice.
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"Embodied Meaning- Symbol, Emotion, and the Expressive Dancer"
In this video, we explore the notion of performative presence and how a dancer gives meaning to movement. A simple, everyday object becomes a symbolic anchor, inviting participants to project emotional content into their physical expression. Through this process, movement transcends form and becomes a channel for emotion, memory, and imagination. Attention is given to how the inner dancer responds to the feelings that arise, and how these internal responses shape the quality, rhythm, and intention of the movement. The practice encourages emotional honesty, poetic transformation, and a deeper connection to one's expressive self.