Body Choice Board
Are your students struggling with decision-making? Using a Body Choice Board can help!
Ideas for Using the Body Choice Board:
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Warm-up Exercises: Start your movement or improv sessions with a warm-up activity where students select one body part from the board. Ask them to focus on that chosen part of the body and explore its movements, gestures, and possibilities. This activity helps students prepare their bodies for expressive work and fosters body awareness.
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Body Part Characterization: Have a student pick something from the choice board, and then instruct everyone in the class to use only that part of the body to communicate an emotion or character. Encourage students to observe and describe how different parts of the body can convey messages and feelings. This activity promotes awareness and creativity, especially among students who may need assistance in connecting emotions to body movements.
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Improvisation and Choreography: Use the choice board as a starting point for improvisation or choreography. Students can select something from the board and create movement sequences, dances, or scenes centered around that part of the body. This activity encourages collaboration, innovation, and the exploration of new physical vocabularies.
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Character Development: When working on physical theater productions or dance performances, encourage students to choose a part of the body from the board to define their character's movements. This exercise deepens their understanding of character physicality and adds layers of authenticity and complexity to their performances.
Using a Body Choice Board enhances body awareness, creative expression, and movement exploration. Whether used in warm-ups, character development, or improvisation exercises, this tool empowers your students to convey emotions and narratives through non-verbal language.
Download the Body Choice Board or download this template to customize your own.
