Can young children create dances? From the moment they are born, children dance as soon as they hear music and "create dances" spontaneously and instinctively. When they grow up, they can imitate the aunties on TV and dance their own ballet, and can dance freely according to the style and rhythm of the music. . These facts prove that young children have the ability to create dance. Our goal for children's dance creation should not be to create a complete and beautiful dance, but to cultivate children's ability to feel and express music with the help of body movements through dance creation activities, and at the same time develop children's observation and attention. , thinking ability and imagination, cultivate and shape people's personality, talents and creativity, and cultivate children's character and moral character. It is not easy to guide children to create dance choreography. It requires children to re-create based on certain dance skills. 1. Guide children to observe the beautiful things around them and accumulate creative materials. Observation is the basis of creation. All the beautiful things around us are the objects we guide children to observe. I think that allowing young children to observe things that can be used as dance materials and try to express them with body language is an effective way to cultivate children's creativity. The main task of teachers is to guide children to master observation methods and focus on observing forms, dynamics, and expressions. In the past, we often used a fixed action to make various animal rhythms, such as a kitten stroking its beard, a puppy drooping its big ears, etc. In fact, through observation, you will find that in addition to the characteristics that everyone notices, an animal often has other significant characteristics that people ignore. Like the rhythm of a bunny, people usually use their hands to raise their ears and jump around to express it. More than thirty long-eared rabbits jumped around together in the class. Although the movements were correct and the images were expressed, they lacked children's feelings and experiences of things. So I made my own bunny rhythm glue for children to guide them to observe the three states of the bunny. Shape: Long ears, short tail, short forelimbs, long hind legs; Dynamics: Jumping and jumping when walking, and occasionally standing up; Expression: Looking around, alert and agile. When creating rhythm after observation, children can understand and incorporate the different characteristics of rabbits into their own improvisational performances based on their own interests. Some children stand with their hands on their heads to make long-ear movements, some fold their hands on their hips to make a short-tail movement, and some children bend their elbows in front of their chests to make a bunny posture, with their eyes looking left and right. Lively, cute and vivid. 2. Provide sufficient opportunities for expression so that children can experience the joy of creation. Creativity must be expressed through adequate performance. Therefore, in addition to providing children with a large number of performance opportunities in educational activities and daily life, I also created a music corner in the corridor and put hand towels, waist drums, small musical instruments, etc. For young children to choose from. Play music, children listen to music and perform impromptu performances, or create new dances with 30% to 50% chance. When celebrating "June 1st", New Year's party, and external visits, I actively strive for more opportunities for children to feel successful and express themselves. . Through performances, children have become more interested in dance, and their expressiveness and creativity have also been improved accordingly. 3. Step by step, cultivate children’s initial artistic creativity. I have chosen different contents for children of different ages, especially in cultivating children’s improvisational dance performance and creative ability. I have paid special attention to the progression from easy to difficult. Small classes usually choose rhythms with outstanding music images, easy expression, and distinctive characteristics, so that children can improvise while listening to cheerful and interesting music, such as elephants, rabbits, ducks, birds, etc. In the middle class, children are asked to create performances. Children must create actions based on understanding the words, such as "Outing", "Fishing", etc. When selecting songs, attention should be paid to specific content, clear narrative, and not being too long, so as to inspire children's imagination and help children realize re-creation. When you reach the senior class, you can choose some music without words and ask the children to create creative activities. On the premise that children already have a dance foundation, they can create dances with different wind bridges based on sound, image, rhythm, speed, and emotion, such as "Snow White", "Cha Cha Cha", etc. Teachers should pay attention to clear goals and single requirements when instructing, because in children's creative works, there will be some problems such as improper coordination of movement rhythm and music, inaccurate control of music images, and inappropriate use of movements. , each time only analyzing a specific problem of children's creation, and putting forward suggestions for improvement in the form of suggestions, so as not to dampen children's enthusiasm for creation, but also enable children to gain real gains. 4. Respect originality and enable children to become actively developing people.

Everyone knows that dance creation is an arduous process, especially creating unique movements is even more difficult. Just imagine, if a child tries his best to design a new action and it is imitated by others, but he does not get recognition and praise, then, over time, will he also use his brain to innovate? Therefore, teachers should value children’s innovations as much as they respect patented technologies. When summarizing each creative activity, I affirm and praise the children's original actions. In this way, it will not only enhance children's self-confidence, make them willing to innovate and dare to innovate, but also enrich the imagination of other children, so that each child will have the desire to create unique actions. 5. Let children have more exposure to music and let music stimulate their interest in creation. Interest is an important psychological factor that generates learning motivation. It is an emotional intention that promotes children to actively explore. It refers to a special attitude towards the real world and a positive cognitive tendency and tendency towards learning. Emotional state. Interest is the teacher, the driving force for learning, and the prerequisite for children to actively explore. Music is the soul of dance, and music and dance are a unity that expresses and promotes each other. Children love music very much, and music can bring them pleasant and beautiful emotional experiences. Appropriately and continuously providing appropriate music to children can stimulate children's enthusiasm for dance, and they will create and perform dances with great interest. They will unconsciously feel that they are fully immersed in dance creation and performance amidst the sound of music. Over time, along with music, they can boldly express themselves and gradually develop an interest in participating in dance creation activities. Dancing talent and creative potential can be fully utilized. The specific methods we implement are: (1) Integrate music into children's daily life. When coming to the kindergarten, some soft and pleasant world famous songs are played in the classroom, so that the children can enter a quiet and comfortable music and art environment as soon as they enter the kindergarten. Some suitable piano music is played during naps and lunches to cultivate the children's sentiments and deepen their experience and understanding of music. Understand, shorten the distance between music and children, let music come closer to children's lives, and let music inspire children's interest in dance creation. (2) Create an environment for children to perform in music. For example: in regional activities, we set up a small stage with different headdresses, ribbons, fans, and age-appropriate rhythm instruments. Play different styles of music so that children can experience the fun of dancing to the music and stimulate their creative interests. Children like to freely follow the rhythm of the music and use dance movements to reflect the mood of the music. For example, with cheerful music, children can freely use the jumping movements of various small animals. Beautiful music, they will naturally use graceful flowers, grass, and trees to express it. Let them fully experience the fun of dance activities and further stimulate children's interest in dance creation. 6. Enrich children’s emotions and let emotions stimulate children’s creation. Emotion is the catalyst for dance creation. Esthetician Shi Dongchang once said: Beauty is the most emotional feature. The cultivation of people by art starts from the cultivation of emotions. It requires moving people with emotion, causing people to experience the excitement of noble emotions and the ups and downs of thinking, and gradually feel beauty, appreciate beauty, express beauty and create beauty. Therefore, In dance creation activities, we first grasp the word love. (1) As a teacher, you should have rich emotions. In dance creation, teachers’ true feelings can strongly infect children and stimulate their creative enthusiasm. First of all, teachers should establish an equal and harmonious teacher-student relationship with children. Only in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere can children's creative enthusiasm be stimulated. Secondly, in the process of guiding children to create, teachers should use full eyes, movements, and expressions to strongly infect children. For example: in the activity of creating and choreographing the dance "Clay Doll", the teacher must first turn himself into a cute clay doll. The funny dance steps, naughty eyes, and naughty cries are all vividly displayed, allowing children to immersively feel that they are in the middle of a clay doll, and unknowingly turn themselves into a naughty clay doll. , the movements and expressions of the clay doll are naturally brewed and expressed. (2) Let children learn to understand and express emotions. In my usual dance creation teaching, I conduct in-depth research and analysis of each song that is created and danced for children, so that children can understand the emotional content that should be expressed in each song. Children are required to incorporate these emotions into their dance creations.

For example, when I was composing the dance of the song "My Good Mother", I used the lyrics to express the mother's tenderness and amiability, as well as the children's love, respect, attachment and other emotions for the mother. From the mother's words It is shown in the eyes and through the child's actions towards the mother. In order to strengthen the expression of these emotions, I require children to first use their eyes and expressions to express the emotions between mother and child when singing songs, and then imagine and create. This not only allows children to experience the appeal of the music, but also allows them to better understand the emotions the music gives them. When children have such emotional experience, the dance they create will be more vital.