Video Learning

Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? Watch a Luna teaching artist lead a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and hear her reflect on the process as she sparks the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan.

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  • Perfect/Imperfect Video Lessons – Video 6: Sharp & Smooth for 5-7 year olds (1 week Access)

    $1.29

    Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? In our videos, a Luna teaching artist or Luna teacher alum leads a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and reflects on the process as they spark the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan, context and tips. 

    Five-to-seven-year-olds investigate energy opposites sharp and smooth in their Luna Studio Lab class with teaching artist Zoe Huey.

    Your purchase allows you access to the lesson video for 1 week, and to a downloadable pdf of the lesson plan & tips.

  • Perfect/Imperfect Video Lessons – Video 5: Sway & Wiggle to Explore Bomba – ECE Dance & Drums (1 week Access)

    $1.29

    Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? In our videos, a Luna teaching artist or Luna teacher alum leads a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and reflects on the process as she sparks the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan, context and tips. 

    A public school early childhood class plays with sway and wiggle with dance and drum led by classroom teacher and Luna Summer Institute alum Bernadette Lanoue (SI ’20).

    Your purchase allows you access to the lesson video for 1 week, and to a downloadable pdf of the lesson plan & tips.

  • Perfect/Imperfect Video Lessons – Video 4: High & Low in ECE (1 week Access)

    $1.29

    Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? In our videos, a Luna teaching artist leads a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and reflects on the process as she sparks the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan, context and tips. 

    A public school early childhood inclusion class plays with high and low dances led by teaching artist Jochelle Pereña.

    Your purchase allows you access to the lesson video for 1 week, and to a downloadable pdf of the lesson plan & tips.

  • Perfect/Imperfect Video Lessons – Video 3: Rivers & Stones – 2 versions (1 week Access)

    $1.50

    Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? In our videos, a Luna teaching artist leads a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and reflects on the process as she sparks the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan, context and tips.

    Watch two versions of a lesson exploring relationship words (over, under, around, through), one with 5-7 year olds and one with props, led by teaching artist Jochelle Pereña.

    Your purchase allows you access to the lesson’s 2 videos for 1 week, and to a downloadable pdf of the lesson plan & tips.

  • Perfect/Imperfect Video Lessons – Video 2: Directional Scales (1 week Access)

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    Directional Scales

    Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? In our videos, a Luna teaching artist leads a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and reflects on the process as she sparks the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan, context and tips.

    In this video watch how teaching artist Jochelle Pereña investigates Laban’s directional scales (rise/fall, widen/narrow, advance/retreat) with a class of 8-11 year olds.

    Your purchase allows you access to the lesson video for 1 week, and to a downloadable pdf of the lesson plan & tips.

  • Perfect/Imperfect Video Lessons – Video 1: Energy Vocabulary (1 week Access)

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    Energy Vocabulary

    Ever wonder how children react to a creative dance lesson you’ve thought about or experienced as an adult at a Luna workshop? In our videos, a Luna teaching artist leads a class through exploration, improvisation, composition, performance, and response, and reflects on the process as she sparks the creative rigor of these choreographers-in-the-making. Follow along with the accompanying lesson plan, context and tips.

    In this Energy Vocabulary lesson video, a class of 8-11 year olds plays with 16 energy action words, then creates duets and trios led by teaching artist Jochelle Pereña.

    Your purchase allows you access to the lesson video for 1 week, and to a downloadable pdf of the lesson plan & tips.