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BAASS Sensory Movement & Dance
BAASS Sensory Movement & Dance sessions offer movement and music with the flexibility to participate in whatever ways are most meaningful for your family.
Sessions are facilitated by the brilliant Selena who has a background in therapeutic movement and dance.
Parents/carers welcome to participate.
These day time sessions are perfect for homeschooling children and youth with a wide range of ages welcome to participate.
Sessions offer a rare opportunity for meaningful interactions and engagement with music and small number of participants.
Participants can expect to see and experience various accessories and we incorporate flexibility in content and flow of sessions to suit the group dynamics and preferences.
BAASS Sensory Movement & Dance provides an unstructured, participant-led, facilitated experience in exploring music, sensation and movement within a group.
You can read the Guidelines and download a registration form for Sensory Movement and Dance here.
Sensory Movement and Dance promotes connection and expression of ideas; emotional, social, cognitive, physical and sensory integration, through a creative, natural, spontaneous and truly beautiful, participant led approach. Facilitating the connection
Recent research has investigated the legitimacy of dance as a way of connecting body, mind, spirit and environment with scholarly discourse also addressing the cognitive, social and emotional benefits of learning through dance (Jan Deans, Senior Lecturer & Director Early Learning Centre Melbourne Graduate School of Education -The University of Melbourne)
Participants can experience and learn about dance, movement and music as forms of art and an invaluable connection to community engagement and participation.
A kinetic movement experience, benefits and opportunities through this program can include meaningful and organic development and learning in areas of:
Wellbeing and Self-Regulation
Movement and Sensory Integration
Language & Learning
"...dance involves a non-verbal form of expression, which has advantages for many communities for whom language adds rather than reduces barriers." Kim Dunphy, Manager, Cultural Development Network
Social Skills and Community Access / Participation
A presentation by Kim Dunphy of Cultural Development Network outlines:
"Deidre Williams describes studies in Australia and the UK that show social and educational outcomes of involvement in community arts programs including;
building and development of communities
increase of social capital
activation of social change
development of human capital
improvement of economic performance"
Further, ‘Community development through dance’ (Jon Hawkes) "On value of arts participation at a community level: "….active community participation in arts practice is an essential component of a healthy and sustainable society.…. arts practice not only open up fantastic vistas of community expressivity but also…. profoundly contributes to the development of community" (Hawkes, 2001). Read more from the Cultural Development Network about community benefits of dance here.
And more!
And above all- FUN!
Sessions are facilitated by the brilliant Selena who has a background in therapeutic movement and dance.
Parents/carers welcome to participate.
These day time sessions are perfect for homeschooling children and youth with a wide range of ages welcome to participate.
Sessions offer a rare opportunity for meaningful interactions and engagement with music and small number of participants.
Participants can expect to see and experience various accessories and we incorporate flexibility in content and flow of sessions to suit the group dynamics and preferences.
BAASS Sensory Movement & Dance provides an unstructured, participant-led, facilitated experience in exploring music, sensation and movement within a group.
You can read the Guidelines and download a registration form for Sensory Movement and Dance here.
Sensory Movement and Dance promotes connection and expression of ideas; emotional, social, cognitive, physical and sensory integration, through a creative, natural, spontaneous and truly beautiful, participant led approach. Facilitating the connection
Recent research has investigated the legitimacy of dance as a way of connecting body, mind, spirit and environment with scholarly discourse also addressing the cognitive, social and emotional benefits of learning through dance (Jan Deans, Senior Lecturer & Director Early Learning Centre Melbourne Graduate School of Education -The University of Melbourne)
Participants can experience and learn about dance, movement and music as forms of art and an invaluable connection to community engagement and participation.
A kinetic movement experience, benefits and opportunities through this program can include meaningful and organic development and learning in areas of:
Wellbeing and Self-Regulation
- Self confidence, self esteem,
- Support relaxation, self regulation and anxiety
- Release tension - emotional and physical release
- Using movement and music as a form of expression
- Opportunity to achieve and make 'mistakes' in an accepting, supportive environment
- Self awareness and emotion recognition
- Experience and learning around hidden curriculum in a low pressure and supported environment
Movement and Sensory Integration
- Spatial awareness, balance and coordination
- Physical health and fitness
- Sensory input- proprioceptive input via stretching and joint compression and traction, vestibular input-balance
- Motor planning and bilateral integration
- Promotes body awareness and body in space
- Promotes full body flexion and prone extension, weight shifting,
- Visual motor development, eye-hand and eye-foot
- Perception and awareness of body limitations
- Flexibility, persistence, self determination
Language & Learning
"...dance involves a non-verbal form of expression, which has advantages for many communities for whom language adds rather than reduces barriers." Kim Dunphy, Manager, Cultural Development Network
- Language, vocabulary, terminology, pronunciation
- Communication through movement
- Conversation, pragmatic language skills. Using movement as an expression and form of communication
- Music, timing
- Self expression and interpretation
- Engaging in supportive environment and group dynamics with a wide age range, facilitating authentic and organic opportunities to experience and learn
- Exploring accessible and authentic language and communication
- Music, dance and play based learning is the most valuable form of authentic and meaningful learning
- Neurological development
Social Skills and Community Access / Participation
- Social skills through interactions based in a supportive, low pressure environment.
- Participants can explore body movement, body language, sense of awareness of self and others supporting understanding of personal space and boundaries, reading emotions and following cues
- Cognitive skills, auditory processing, focus
- Creativity, imagination, experimentation, exploration
- Team work, turn taking, reciprocal relationships,
- Supporting concepts such as trust, co-operation
- Strengthening relationships between and within communities and recognising that our differences are fundamental to our identity
- Shared interests, sense of community and belonging
- Sharing and exploring ideas, collaboration
- Developing rapport and trust
A presentation by Kim Dunphy of Cultural Development Network outlines:
"Deidre Williams describes studies in Australia and the UK that show social and educational outcomes of involvement in community arts programs including;
building and development of communities
increase of social capital
activation of social change
development of human capital
improvement of economic performance"
Further, ‘Community development through dance’ (Jon Hawkes) "On value of arts participation at a community level: "….active community participation in arts practice is an essential component of a healthy and sustainable society.…. arts practice not only open up fantastic vistas of community expressivity but also…. profoundly contributes to the development of community" (Hawkes, 2001). Read more from the Cultural Development Network about community benefits of dance here.
And more!
And above all- FUN!