Dance improvisation prompts

This blog post features tips and strategies for teaching dance improvisation to beginning dancers who are new to improv. Discover why you should teach improvisation to beginning dancers, challenges that beginning improvisers face, and dance improvisation exercises to use with beginning students.

Dance improv prompts to help you discover you movement a little bit more

Do you need some fresh choreography inspiration? Looking for some new choreography ideas? Check out these 15 unique choreography prompts to help inspired your creative practice! These ready-to-use prompts can also be used for dance improvisation #choreography #choreographytips #choreographyideas #choreographyinspiration #danceimprovisationideas #danceimprovactivities

Why should you teach dance improvisation? If you knew me early on in my dance career, you’d probably be shocked that a big portion of my blog is devoted to teaching and practicing dance improvisation. I was terrified of improvisation as a young dancer, and becoming comfortable with improv took time, persistence, and some ...

This free list 21 dance improv ideas and choreography prompts are designed to help students develop resiliency and persistence. Use these dance activities in classes with dancers of most age groups, skill levels, and dance styles. Give your students some new dance inspiration and help them navigate difficult times with these dance prompts! #danceteacherresources #danceimprovideas #danceactivities #danceimprovtip #choreographytip #choreographyinspiration

These prompts for dance improvisation or choreography help choreographers and dancers deepen their understanding of terms, themes, and concepts related to the social justice issues they read in the news, see on social media, and experience in their own lives, while encouraging their creative growth and personal expression. Use these prompts in dance technique class, improvisation class, as part of the rehearsal process, or for personal practice. #choreographyprompts #danceimprovisation

Now more than ever, with the world recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and an uncertain future before us, it is critical that we address our dance students’ emotional health in their dance training. As we continue to navigate the effects of the pandemic, our students are likely experiencing lingering feelings of fear, anxiety, and a major sense of disruption. Some will be facing additional trauma at home, having struggled immensely without the safe zones of school or the studio or dealing…

Reignite your creativity with these summer-inspired choreography or dance improvisation prompts! These summer-themed choreography or dance improvisation prompts are great to use in your creative personal practice as an improviser or choreographer. You can also use them with your dance students in improvisation or choreography classes. Use these prompts as part of your summer dance camps, workshops, or intensives.

Movement Concepts

This dance blog post features 10 choreography prompts that help choreographers and dance students learn modern dance composition skills like space, level, tempo, rhythm, pathway, accumulation, retrograde, and more! Ignite your creativity and give your students some choreography inspiration with these prompts. They provide choreography ideas for creating original work, revising existing choreography, or exercises in dance composition classes. #choreographyideas #choreographyinspiration