Arts Week – In the Woods Theme

I went back to one of my favourite schools recently – Widcome Infants School in Bath, who Zest has been visiting every year for around eight years now. It’s so lovely to have a good connection to a school and the teachers. I’ve also got to know all the children and watch them grow up through the years.

The children think i’m a bit bonkers sometimes with some of the creative dance i’ve created for their various Arts Weeks over the years, but they all have a great time letting their imagination run wild through dance!

The school chooses the theme for their Arts Week, and all the lessons taught throughout the school that week are based on the same theme.

Here are some of the Arts Week themes they have previously chosen for me to base my dance workshops on:

Outer Space
Under the sea
Roald Dahl – we did a Charlie and the chocolate factory themed OOmpa Loompa dance!
Castles and Kings
Shakespeare – we based it on the Three Witches from Macbeth
India
Spain

So this year the theme was ‘In the Woods’.
I found a great piece of music all about going for a walk in the woods. It was a contemporary dance featuring trees, streams, and lots of animals you’d find in the wood. Some of the dance I taught was choreographed to the music with set moves, gestures and travelling sequences. I also got the children into groups and they chose a woodland animal/insect/bird to create their own short dances around. We performed these to each other and added it on to my dance to create a whole piece.

The children had a great time and I really enjoyed it. I look forward to seeing what they have in store for me next time…