This week all the students in 3/4 had their first dance incursion with Vikki Blanche. It was an opportunity for students to connect with their bodies in a calm environment; however, as you will read below, it was also a lot of fun. While some of the kids were hesitant at first, they got to show off their adventurous sides by giving it a shot and expressing themselves in a different way.
Claudia: “I loved the dance so much. We did a thing where we had a scarf on us and then we pic
ked a tree to transform into. When the music played we got to grow from a seed to a tree.
Owen: “Dancing made me feel calm and happy with a sprinkle of excitement and a pinch of joy. When I was growing as a seed it made me wonder what I was going to become – I wanted to jump up and grow all at once but we did it slowly like a tree. It was hard to do, actually.”
Harry: “We were pretending to be a tree. Vikki said at the end ‘be in peace’ and she put a candle on and asked us to look at the flame. She said: ‘Can you see through the flame? Look at the way the flame moves.’ It felt calm and I liked the bit when we pretended to be a tree.
Maggie: “I really liked the dance incursion because I got to become my own personal tree and I became an apple tree. At the end Vikki said ‘we have peace in all of us’ while we sat around the candle and had our palms together under our chins.”
Banjo: “I totally thought the dance incursion was the most amazing thing I have ever been to in my life. We got to say ‘be in peace’ and when she said look inside the flame and look through the flame I could. It was the best.”
Molly: “I really liked the incursion because the dance was excellent! The meditation was brilliant. The saying we used is ‘be in peace.’ I think this means always be friends.
