Enhancing Elementary Level Student's Expressive Movement Capability through Creative Approach

Abstract

Abstract-Dance can have great influences on children's life as it includes the physical activities as well as a medium for selfexpression. However, problems usually can be found in dance education at elementary level, including the lack of interest of the student and the perception that dancing is difficult and not comfortable. This paper reports a study on inducing creative approach to increase student's expressive movement capability, in the form of storytelling. The method has been applied in few sessions of dancing class at State Elementary School No. 2, LubukBuaya, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The analysis on the capability test shows that there was significant increment on the expressive movement capability of the students after the method was applied. This was shown by the final performance test result that 90% of the students were able to develop their own unique movements developed them into beautiful patterns, and performed the movements smoothly.