Children’s Dance

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.