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Dance is Home #7- Sound On

4/20/2020

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Finding movement inspiration from the sounds around us. 

In your house:
  1. Sit quietly and listen to the sounds in and around your home.
  2. Describe the sounds on a piece of paper.
  3. Let the sounds inspire movement. 
  4. Create a moving soundtrack that describes the sounds you discovered. 

Let’s pause, take a moment and listen. Unmute the outside noise and invite it in. Give yourself permission to sit still, be quiet, and observe. Who knows... the buzzing of the refrigerator might take you on an exciting journey! Use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Respond to the sounds with different parts of the body.
  • Let them travel. 
  • Play with speed, accents, and duration. 
  • Vibrate, circle, beat, slash. 

Today’s focus: TIME-ENERGY
Happy dance making!!
Would love to see your #danceishome
Please tag me @jonesdanceco so we can see what you made.



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Dance is Home #6- Find Your Light

4/16/2020

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Dedicated to all performers missing spring concerts.

In your house:
  1. Pick a time of day and place with light that inspires you. If in doubt, turn on a lamp or grab a flashlight.
  2. Fill the space with your body. 
  3. Trace the shape. 
  4. Move in and out of the light.

​Have fun moving in this defined space and use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Sit in the light and breathe.
  • Make finger puppets.
  • Play with different body parts in and out of the light.
  • Feel it on your skin, how does it make you feel? Move with this energy. 
  • Breathe, fold, glide, wave. ​

Today’s focus: SPACE- SHAPES AND FOCUS.

Happy dance making!!
Would  love to see your #danceishome
Please tag me @jonesdanceco so we can see what you made.



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Dance is Home #5- Book Work

4/13/2020

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In honor of officially starting #distancelearning.

In your house:
  1. Choose a book.
  2. Play with heavy and light movements with the book.
  3. Open the book to a random page, choose three words.
  4. Create movement for each word.

Have fun creating movement with your book. Think of this dance as a duet. Play with being literal and abstract! Use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Balance, open/close, toss, smell, scan, drop.
  • Sprinkle the movement you discovered from the weight improvisation among the word movements. 
  • Choose a space in your home that compliments your book dance.

​Today’s focus: SPACE-ENERGY-RELATIONSHIPS.

Happy dance making!!

Would  love to see your #danceishome
Please tag me @jonesdanceco so we can see what you made.



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Dance is Home #4- Window Shopping

4/9/2020

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Let’s make dances while we #shelterinplace

We can still look out and observe our surroundings. Let’s do that today. You may notice something new!

In your house:
  1. Go to a window.
  2. List what you see. 
  3. Make one movement for each word.
  4. Put them together in any order.

Have fun creating movement with your words. Play with being literal and abstract! Use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Try the dance facing the back, right, left, and front of the window.
  • Do it again and change your facing two times. 
  • Sway, slash, skip, sing? 

Today’s focus: SPACE- SHAPES and DIRECTIONS.
Happy dance making!!

Would  love to see your #danceishome
Please tag me @jonesdanceco so we can see what you made.

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Dance is Home #3- Doorway Discoveries

4/6/2020

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Let’s make dances while we #shelterinplace

A fun score that explores movement in a doorway you pass through daily. Discover the corners, ways it can support you (did you ever climb it), and shapes you can make with it. The best part is your dance is automatically framed and ready for viewing! 

In your house:
  1. Choose a doorway.
  2. Make low, middle, and high shapes in the doorway.
  3. Reach to each corner. 
  4. Let the doorway support your weight.

Have fun moving in this defined space and use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Pretend you are two dimensional like a petroglyph?
  • Use the doorway to frame, compliment, and support your shapes.
  • Determine if you are stuck, confined, or content. 
  • Push, wiggle, hop, float, twist? 

Today’s focus: SPACE and the SHAPES we can make.
Happy dance making!!

Would  love to see your #danceishome
Please tag me @jonesdanceco so we can see what you made.

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Dance is Home #2- Furniture Showcase

4/1/2020

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Let’s make dances while we #shelterinplace

Inspired by our new spatial patterns due to social distancing, I am offering a series of movement prompts to spark dance making in the comfort of our homes.

Dance Is Home #2- Furniture Showcase
In your house:
  1. Choose a piece of furniture- a chair, lamp, table, etc.
  2. Move- in front of, near, beside, over or under, behind, alone or connected.
  3. Make the furniture’s shape with your body.

Have fun moving in and around your piece of furniture and use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Name the furniture?
  • Describe it’s personality?
  • Make movements that demonstrate the energy/personality of the furniture?
  • Crawl, wiggle, poke, wrap, lean? 

Today’s focus: SPACE and the RELATIONSHIPS we can make.
Happy dance making!!

Would  love to see your #danceishome
please tag me @jonesdanceco

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Dance is Home #1- House Tour

3/28/2020

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Let’s make dances while we #shelterinplace

Inspired by our new spatial patterns due to social distancing, I am offering a series of movement prompts to spark dance making in the comfort of our homes.
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Dance Is Home #1- House Tour
In your house:
  1. Trace the shape of a table by walking around it.
  2. Immediately walk to your front door.
  3. Move to the sink.
  4. End up in your favorite room.

​Have fun moving around your house and use any of the suggestions below to expand on this mini dance. Remember this can be as simple or complex as you want. It’s yours to make. Take your time and play!

Can you:
  • Map out your route on paper?
  • Meander, lean, point, slide, and stretch in your pathway?
  • Make movements that demonstrate the energy of the room(s)?
  • Discover different ways to travel from one place to the next?
  • Give the tour with an overall theme?

Today’s focus: SPACE and the PATHWAYS we can make.
Happy dance making!!

Would  love to see your #danceishome
please tag me @jonesdanceco

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