A few weeks ago whilst we were dancing amongst a cold rainy day one of our participants mentioned that he would like to dance in the rain! He explained that it’s a great way to express yourself. This led to…
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Even the snow couldn’t keep our lovely participants away today! Today’s session was based on flying and floating using the idea of what it would be like to fly and float in a hot air balloon. Of course I had…
Over the past few weeks at Dover Court it has been wonderful getting to know each other & encouraging everyone to have a go with drawing, painting and collage over cups of tea & cake. Each week I have brought…
After weeks of discussions with the group I feel I am beginning to really understand what the group are interested in, how to challenge them and what might be quite a new concept to them. I love the idea of…
Today’s focus was taken from the participant’s interest in Musicals and Jive Dance. Yes we got down with the Hand Jive from Grease the Musical! We began by learning the traditional hand jive and before we knew it we had…
Today was fantastic, and full of life, dancing and giant elastic bands! During today’s session at Alvaston and Boltons welfare club I really wanted to get the group connecting and working together. For this I brought a variety of elastic…
Monday 29th was our first official Creative Living session where I was delivering Creative Movement at Alvaston and Bolton’s Welfare Club. The session was an introduction of what creative movement is and how we can be creative when dancing. I…
This week at Creative Living, Alvaston I brought in my collection of stones & pebbles. After looking closely at the different shapes & forms everyone chose their favourites to draw & then paint on canvas with acrylic paints. At the…