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Advanced Dance Class Expresses Social Distancing Through TikTok Project
The projects expressed different moods related to social distancing restrictions among the students.
Students in the Upper School’s advanced dance class turned their feelings and expressions around the new social distancing way of life into a class project.
Director of Dance Kirsten Harvey assigned a dance project about social distancing using the influential social media app TikTok. The students were encouraged to explore questions like “What does it mean to social distance?” and “How does this new requirement in your life make you feel?” in their dancing.
Dancers have expressed challenges around finding enough space at home to dance and this project allows them to create expressive movement in the TikTok format. The projects expressed different moods related to social distancing restrictions among the students.
Olivia Ostlund brought her parents in to dance with her, noting that “social distancing for me is spending less time with my friends and more time with my family.” Cami Thomas, meanwhile, choreographed a dance to the recent Tom MacDonald song “Coronavirus” that speaks to the frustration of isolation and uncertainty.
Mrs. Harvey also encouraged the students to participate in aservice challenge by TikTok dance star Charli D’Amelio, where they can use the hashtag #distancedance to generate sponsored donations to Feeding America and Matthew 25: Ministries to serve at-risk populations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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