THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND CREATIVITY THROUGH DANCE GROUP CHOREOGRAPHY AT THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES

Abstract

Background. The development of the informational means led to the diminishing of communication skills between people. These useful means of information are needed in the conditions of the current life but they also contribute substantially to the self-isolation by working from home, by distance communication, and this fact can be noticed in the antisocial behaviour of teenagers.
Objectives. By approaching this matter at the dance classes we have the possibility to develop the human relationships and to determine the possibility of collaboration and the development of creativity through the specifics of the discipline and the suggested subjects. In achieving the objectives we pursued in this research 3 categories of: aptitude factors, intellectual factors and personality factors. All these categories of factors were capitalized in the context in which the subjects had to make cha-cha-cha choreography on the basis of the acquired, physical and methodological knowledge.
Methods. Teaching – learning – consolidation – improvement were the working methods at first.
The observation method: we used the formative-participatory methods.
The modeling method: we used creative exercises and exercises of body expressiveness in relation with the nature of the movements and the music.
Results. The evaluation took place under competition conditions in order to stimulate the collaboration between the members of the groups. The results showed that the 2nd, the 3rd and the 5th group, where the subjects managed to collaborate, to socialize and to form a common idea and a common aim, had better structured choreographies and had more creativity, as they got 7 points out of 10. For the 1st, 4th and 6th group, where the subjects didn’t collaborate much, the creativity couldn’t develop.
Conclusion. By working in groups, all subjects have made progress regarding their social abilities. In groups where the emulation was faster, there were better executions, the members of the group synchronized and the choreographies were more creative. In the dance classes for groups of students it’s about a creative potential which have developed through the learning process but also through other activities which took place independently.