THANK YOU for sharing the DANCE OF FREEDOM materials with your students. Please fill out this form to let us know how it went and to share links to any dances you created. You can also email feedback and any images or video from your process that you are willing to share to
meg@duncandancesouth.org.
Meg Brooker's project DANCING FOR SUFFRAGE: RECONSTRUCTING FLORENCE FLEMING NOYES'S DANCE OF FREEDOM offers dance educators an opportunity to explore a historic choreography, with a social activist theme, and to initiate dialogue with students about voting rights and embodied experiences of oppression. This dance opens conversations about racism in the women's suffrage movement and creates a space for dancers to explore their own, contemporary movement responses to the themes in the dance. In creating this reconstruction, Meg draws on her background as a certified teacher of Noyes Rhythm, with nearly two decades of kinesthetic research into early modern dance practices. This project and the accompanying materials are designed to be adaptable for K-12 and university dance populations. Link to the educational resource:
https://www.duncandancesouth.org/dance-of-freedom-project