Difficulty Medium
Duration 30 minut
Type of activity Long term activities
Season Any
Occasion Any
Suitability Without limits
Locations Indoor
Tools
rhythmical instruments
colorful ribbons or scarfs
Goal
Participants are equally welcome to dance with smaller or bigger movements, or to simply rest, enjoy the music and dance through their imagination. The most important thing is that participants pay attention to what their body needs and listen to their own limits.
Intergenerational benefits
Understanding and relationship building
Understanding and relationship building
The activity promotes the understanding and appreciation of the attitudes, opinions, and experiences which different generations bring to the relationships, understanding and avoiding generational stereotypes and fostering tolerance of different lifestyles and an appreciation for cultural heritages, traditions and histories.
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
The activity promotes learning and skill sharing among younger and older generations. It involves the sharing of positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other, especially the experience with novelties of modern times and valuable life lessons as well as cultural and familiar traditions.
Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing
The activity promotes physical and mental well-being. It has a positive impact on the quality of life (feeling of self-worth and a reduction in loneliness and isolation, promotion of physical and cognitive activity).
Personal impact
Personal impact
Developing soft skills (like empathy, confidence, communication abilities, learning skills) and developing their own strengths and talents.
Cognitive skills
Cognitive skills
Supporting mental / brain-based skills we need to do anything from the simplest to the most complex tasks:perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language, visual and spatial processing, executive functions.
Community involvement
Community involvement
The activity increases confidence and involvement within the community. It offers a starting point that could have a positive impact within the community.
Step by Step
- Divide the participants in two groups. The first group will play the music; the second group will dance to the music. The groups can be mixed (children and seniors together in one group). There should be enough space for free movement.
- Give the participants of the first group colorful scarfs or ribbons. Give them time to feel and play with them a little.
- Show them how they can twirl and move the scarf above their heads or next to them.
- Now hand out rhythmical instruments to the participants of the second group.
- Answer any questions regarding how to play a particular instrument (sticks, triangles, cymbals, drums, tambourines, fruit shakers, self-made instruments or other rhythmic objects).
- Instruct the group with the instruments to play a song to which the second group is going to dance.
- After a few minutes of performing, let the groups change the tasks.
- Alternative: let the groups play and dance-out different feelings, such as silly, angry, lonely or happy. You might say, "Can you make up a song and dance that shows me you are feeling happy? What about one that shows me you are feeling afraid?"
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