Dance dramatization: Animals at Grandma winter

In this thesis I present a way to prepare and implement the dance dramatization of the fairy tale Animals at Grandma winter. In preschool I noticed that dramatization is often accompanied by costumes, scenery and different accessories.because of that children are difficult to relax and physically express, so I focussed on the physically-dance creation and expression. In the theoretical part there are first defined dance and movement. The importance of expression through dance and movement is presented, as well as listed and described aspects on which we influence by that kind of movement. Within the creative movement there is a few words about improvisation and role playing. There are presented the types of physical activities and physically-dance dramatization. Educators need to be aware of the role that we have in dance- creative process and take into account the principles and methods of dance education, that are listed at the end of the theoretical part. Empirical part of the tesis includes activities, courses of action and analysis of individual days,that I have performed in a group of preschool children aged three to four years. In expressing animals, the children very good assumed roles. Each one on his own way of movement showed the animal and its movements. Their higher creativity was influenced by activities in which we learned about the characteristics of the animals and looked at their movements in the wild. Educators need to be the one which allow children such movement and let them create as they wishwhich leads to exploration and searching always for new movement solutions. Through this movement, we can observe the child in a different way and try to find out the message that child is sending to us