Children’s Dance

The feet of a group of children and colourful fabrics
Through dance, play and movement, children are given a platform to explore cooperation and motorical skills. The children integrate experiences of giving and taking place through the body, being fast or slow, big and small, portraying emotions such as joy and fear, portraying images and solving problems without competition. Imagination takes on new dimensions when the body is allowed to be the base.
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Testimonials

It is very useful to break the way you do things in a certain way and to try something new. You come from outside and open doors for the kids that we might not be able to do here. It’s great fun to see how dance can become a common language for everyone, where the children can do something together regardless of how the children otherwise speak and what their mother tongue is. I think it’s great fun! It is something we need; that very thing of being able to talk to the body.

Tiina Mattio, kindergarten teacher
Children's dance

The children come out in a different way in the dance, in how they are together in the group; both individually and as a group. I have seen sides of the children that I have not seen before; maybe that some children are more shy and don’t take much space verbally but that the body can say so much more. I experienced in dance that children are capable of much more than we adults think, especially based on what we expect in terms of age.

Laura Garcia, kindergarten teacher
Children's dance

I think Sydänvirta got the children on board very well right from the start, and it was interesting how they would use their bodies to express themselves and not their mouths.

Annette Holmén, Daycare teacher
Children's dance

Let them dance

  • Workshop for children

    Available on request

    Playful and imagination provoking workshops with dance where children explore interaction and motorical skills.
    more info
    A group of kindergarten children dancing with their arms raised.

  • Education for pedagogues and teachers

    available on request

    Implement dance and value basis for equality work with children in kindergarten and/or school.
    more info
    A circle of children playing in the floor

  • Dance and Storytelling "What happened next?"

    Available on request

    The children come along on a fairytale journey where Tove Jansson's magical world is experienced through dance and movement.
    more info
    Gabriel holding a Moomin book, dressed as one of the caricatures.

  • Dance in the school

    Available on request

    Creative dance integrate experiences of giving and taking space with the body; become more confident in our own expression, co-creation and cooperate instead of competing, have fun together and surrender to the dance!
    more info
    A gym floor with intersecting colored lines in blue, yellow, pink, and green. A round sports equipment socket is visible at the center.

Workshop for children

Available on request

150€

Playful and imagination provoking workshops with dance where children explore interaction and motorical skills. The children integrate experiences of giving and taking place through the body, being fast or slow, big and small, portraying emotions such as joy and fear, portraying images and solving problems without competition. Imagination takes on new dimensions when the body is allowed to be the expression.

 

The workshop is built around various fantasy-evoking themes such as the space, the forest and fairy tales. Great opportunity to shape the workshops according to wishes and with special focus areas and learning goals with the pedagogy.

 

Age group: 2-5 years, Preschool class, grades 1-3

Max number of participants: 15/25

Language: Swedish and Finnish

 

 

Price:

1 workshop 60 min 150€

  • Gabriel and Elinmaria surrounded by children waving a blue cloth.
  • A group of kindergarten children dancing with their arms raised.
  • Gabriel and Elinmaria surrounded by children waving a blue cloth.
  • A group of kindergarten children dancing with their arms raised.
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Education for pedagogues and teachers

available on request

2000€

The education includes training and guidance for educators in implementing dance in daily activities as well as dance as a resource for equality work. Aimed at kindergarten, preschool and primary school.

 

Objective: Implement dance and value basis for equality work in the organization. Educators receive tools and practical applied knowledge about the body and norm-critical pedagogy, gender equality work from the ground and dance for children.

 

Content:

– 2 educational courses for all the teachers and pedagoges 3h and 1.5h.

– 5 dance workshops in children’s groups including tutoring for 1-2 pedagogues.

Language: Swedish and Finnish

 

Read more (PDF, Only in Swedish): Barn Dans utbildning / Upplägg_barndans_utbildning

  • A circle of children playing in the floor
  • Close up of a beautiful yellow flower
  • A circle of children playing in the floor
  • Close up of a beautiful yellow flower
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Dance and Storytelling "What happened next?"

Available on request

350€

The children come along on a fairytale journey where Tove Jansson’s magical world is experienced through dance and movement. The story “What happened next?” is read by the characters Lilla My and Snusmumriken in linguistic playfulness, interspersed with both Swedish and Finnish. The children are den invited to use movement to explore dance as language and storytelling.

 

– Aims to create a place where we can meet and interact regardless of language affiliation

– Aims to highlight the nature and culture of the Archipelago through Tove Jansson’s magical world.

– Aims for the children to practice motor skills, imagination, interaction and have fun.

 

Age group: 2 years and up

Max number of participants: 15

Language: Swedish, Finnish, English

  • Gabriel and ElinMaria surrounded by a group of children
  • Gabriel and Elinmaria surrounded by children waving a blue cloth.
  • A group of children engage with two adults in costume, one dressed in bright red with a red wig, and the other wearing a green outfit with a large gray hat, in a room with yellow curtains.
  • Two people in costumes reading a picture book to a group of young children sitting on the floor in what appears to be a classroom or library setting.
  • Gabriel and ElinMaria surrounded by a group of children
  • Gabriel and Elinmaria surrounded by children waving a blue cloth.
  • A group of children engage with two adults in costume, one dressed in bright red with a red wig, and the other wearing a green outfit with a large gray hat, in a room with yellow curtains.
  • Two people in costumes reading a picture book to a group of young children sitting on the floor in what appears to be a classroom or library setting.
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Dance in the school

Available on request

150€

Creative dance integrate experiences of giving and taking space with the body; become more confident in our own expression, co-creation and cooperate instead of competing, have fun together and surrender to the dance!

 

The dance develops skills in integrity in movement and expression, motor-skills and coordination, musicality and rhythm, spatial perception, social and dynamics and ensemble work. With improvisation as a base we as well build-up-easy-to- follow choreography’s where the children are involved in creating the movement.

 

Improvisation is not bound to develop technical perfection, instead it is based on the individual’s own expression and creative solutions; With dance, equal treatment and equality are put into practice!

Together with an experienced pedagogue, children and young people are invited to a platform to experience, analyze and discuss what it is to participate in artistic processes.

 

Age group: Grades 1-4, 5-6, 7-9

 

Recommended max number of participants: 15

Price: 150€ / 45 min

 

  • Close-up of a sports court floor with overlapping lines in orange, yellow, and green. Small orange squares are scattered nearby.
  • Close-up of a sports court floor with a blue line intersecting a black curve and small white marking.
  • A green surface is marked with an orange tape outline and small orange tape pieces in a geometric arrangement.
  • A grey floor with a blue line, a pale green line, and three small orange squares placed on it.
  • A gym floor with intersecting colored lines in blue, yellow, pink, and green. A round sports equipment socket is visible at the center.
  • Close-up of a sports court floor with overlapping lines in orange, yellow, and green. Small orange squares are scattered nearby.
  • Close-up of a sports court floor with a blue line intersecting a black curve and small white marking.
  • A green surface is marked with an orange tape outline and small orange tape pieces in a geometric arrangement.
  • A grey floor with a blue line, a pale green line, and three small orange squares placed on it.
  • A gym floor with intersecting colored lines in blue, yellow, pink, and green. A round sports equipment socket is visible at the center.
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Dance for children – education in kindergarten, preschool and primary school.

Equality work with the focsu for body. Through dance, value-based and equality work is put into practice. In a playful way, the children gain access to different parts of themselves and develop physical, emotional and social abilities such as communication, motorical skills and contact with their feelings. The children practice skills such as giving and taking place, leading and following, bodily boundaries and bodily communication. We can dance for the joy of dancing but also to gain greater access to all aspects of our body, create new experiences in interaction with others and for an expanded dimension of dynamics in the relationship between educator and child.

The aim is for everyone to have access to their bodies, increased ability to interact, put everyone’s equal value into practice and in the long run, provide more equal opportunities for good health and safety from violence.

The children come along on a fairy tale journey where a book is read in linguistic playfulness, interspersed with both Swedish and Finnish. The children can then use movement to explore dance as language for storytelling.

Moving Heart has broad and solid experience working with children and is passionate about creating spaces for children where imagination can flow and the feeling of freedom and joy of movement can take place. We think it is the right of all children to explore movement and meet in artistic contexts, where the whole person can take place.

ElinMaria Sydänvirta is trained in children’s dance at Umeå University and the Ballet Academy (Sweden) as well as independent courses in creative dance. I have long and wide experience of leading dance for children both at dance school, library, in childcare and school. During the years 2013-2016, I trained teachers in dance as a method for equal treatment in Umeå Municipality, Vindelns Municipality and Åre Municipality in Sweden.

Gabriel Sydänvirta has a broad professional competence for cultural and cross-art projects with Children. He has worked as a community artist in more than 50 countries around the world bringing dance and art to the most remote places for example mountain villages of Kyrgyzstan, desert of Kazakhstan, island of Haiti and rainforest of Ecuador. Gabriel has been playing and working with kids in refugee camps, village partys, desert island and orphanages as well traveled for three years through Asia with an old art bus bringing art, culture and workshops for the children of the world.

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