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Professional Learning Circle #5:
In this session we explore how writing prompts can be used to inspire poems, stories, dramatization, choral speaking, and choreography. Session participants created a list of writing strategies to use in your drama and dance teaching.
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
How can dance, drama, and writing be creatively combined to tell a story/ communicate ideas and feelings?
What writing formats and structures support students to compose powerful poetry and prose?
How might we draw upon professional writers, poets, dance artists and theatre artists to inspire student projects?
Composition - Writing, Dance & Drama.mp4Click above to view a presentation with guided narration.
Click here to view slides only (without narration).
Topic Overview
Topic Overview
When we invite students to create drama and dance from their own words, we telegraph a message that their thoughts, feelings and voices matter. This topic overview presentation offers a series of writing prompts and invites participants to experience the power of their own words, shaped artically through poetry, drama and dance. Formats and structures to support student composition in writing, drama, and dance are also shared.
Resources
Resources
Here are the links referenced in the presentation. Additional teacher resources and classroom resources are also listed below, including a list of strategies compiled by session participants:
Here is a list of writing prompts that can inspire extensions into drama and dance. This list includes links to an art project and samples of prepositional dance poetry.
Writing Prompts with Extensions into Dance & Drama
This commercial text is filled with dynamic structures for poetry writing. The frameworks help students craft powerful poems every time. (See an example in the Topic Overview slide deck).
The Magic Words: Sample Poetry Prompts that Unlock the Creativity of Everyone by Joseph Fasano.
In this session, a small group of drama and dance teachers co-constructed a list of strategies that they use to inspire poetry, story-building, drama and dance in their classrooms.
Writing, drama, and dance strategies:
In this article, Patrice Baldwin share some of the teaching learning that transpired in her Drama for Thought, Talk and Writing Project.
Drama for Thought, Talk and Writing
You may also be interested in her book: Inspiring Writing through Drama.
This monograph from the Ministry of Education, 2014, summarizes some key research findings related to the power of drama to support reading comprehension. It also highlights specific drama strategies that deepen understanding and meaning-making of poetry including choral speaking, soundscape and tableau.
Performing Poetry: Using Drama to Increase the Comprehension of Poetry. MOE, 2014
This performance opened the 2019 Women in the World Summit. This video may inspire beautiful collaborations in your drama and dance learning space! Poem by Amanda Gorman; Choreography by Sherrie Silver
Poetry & Dance Performance- Amanda Gorman and Sherrie Silver
This blog post articulates some key ways in which poetry and dance share a relationship: emotional expression; narrative and storytelling; metaphor and symbolism; rhythm and musicality; experimentation and innovation. It is a quick read for the teacher and may be an effective reading assignment for secondary dance students.
What is the Relationship between Poetry and Contemporary Dance
A Provocations Journal Recommendation:
An Invitation
An Invitation
We invite you to write a rant , or a "love letter", or a preposition poem. Invite your students to write in any of these forms, and with their permission, send us a few examples to share with the Provocation community. Send to provocationjournal@gmail.com.
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