Abstract Movement Youth Programs are designed to help turn a child's energy into productive habits and patterns.
House Music has been a part of our Ideology since we formed our platform. The communal aspect of music and dance present opportunities to address complex social and internal issues in a way that children can understand such as controlling our energy, spacial awareness, communication and respecting the foundations and boundaries of cultures and people.
The experimental nature of making House music and the freeform nature of the dance allow the kid's to truly express themselves while exploring these concepts.
Our main ideology here at Abstract Movement is that expressive creativity can be a healing platform for adults. We believe that we physically hold on to emotions and trauma and this can cause physical and mental illness. We feel the best way to release and process these things is to creatively express ourselves.
If we can instill the benefit of creative expression to kids early in their development they have a better chance of integrating these tools into their authentic personalities as they develop.
Group Music & Dance Programs
During our group sessions, we create music by having the kids interact with different electronic instruments. They are taught that just as their impact to different instruments affects the sound, their energy affects the people around them. We sample sounds from their favorite video game or whatever media they are into, and use it in our production as a way to keep the kids interested.
We then use the music we made to play a DJ set of House Music. Blending in different cultural music such as Afro and Latin House, we discuss how different cultures can work in harmony just as the songs do. We also incorporate local songs and sounds to reiterate the idea that our culture is a melting pot of many other cultures.
At the end of our session the kids are introduced to the idea of a dance cypher. This is where they are taught about spacial awareness, communication and being present. Dance is the platform where they can express their physical energy and begin to understand that if they harness that energy through creativity they can become a superhero.
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