I think that the poetry in motion workshop was a great way for us to try to dance a painting. It also was great because we got to work with others from a different class so we could see how well we worked with people we didn’t know as much. It was hard to make up the dance because you had to dance like if you were for example color and it’s hard to imagine what to dance so people can think that you are representing color, perspective etc. It was also challenging to make the dance without the music because when we performed we started all sad and gloomy but the music was happy and upbeat and it never really matched our dance. I think that the dance would end up a lot different if we had the music from the beginning. I learned a lot from this activity. I learned how to work well with people I don’t know well like people from a different class. I also learned how to express a painting through dance. Before I had no idea how to dance a painting. I learned how it’s possible to represent a painting through dance even if it has no feelings like color, perspective, illusion, etc. I think this activity really helped us learn a lot of things.
I think we should do an activity like this more often. We could also do an activity like this but next time with music from the beginning and we can see the difference between the one with music and without music.