The purpose of this study was to reveal the meaning and characteristic of expression with various common objects in the study of dance. For this purpose, research and reporting of dance classes with common objects was carried out, then questionnaires were distributed to those who took the dance classes.
Practice examples what expression with various common objects in the study of dance were found 303cases for the past 20 years. The findings include instances in which sheets of newspaper (205cases) , pieces cloth (60cases) and lengths of elastic band (34cases) were used. Those who taught dance classes got the goodness suggested aiming at the discovery of awaking and the movement of the body. In the study form always in connection with though the stage of three study is included and Read, a leader, has in the beginning the others of “becoming a newspaper”, “becoming - newspaper handling a newspaper”, and “dancing improvisatorially in a newspaper”, instruction using the target newspaper was performed by this research.
Expression using various common objects employing the peculiar characteristic efficiently, when leadership which the leader meant, such as a viewpoint of teaching-materials-izing and a study form, was added, giving a student deepening of expression nature and learning was suggested, and It was suggested that the characteristic and meaning are development of the various motions by uniting the textures of thing with the body, the mental and physical ease of doing by existence of a concrete thing, and a spread of the way of thinking mutually touched off and chained with the others.

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In this study, a survey has been made on an intensive experience-based program of dance workshop. Based on the results of this survey, this report discusses what students can learn through group dance creation. After the workshop, semi-structured interviews were conducted on the six participants, and their narratives were analyzed. The analysis indicated that the following types of “learning” experience were acquired through group dance creation.
1) Recognizing and respecting the “individuality” of herself and of the others.
2) Starting to find herself exercising “self-expression,” regardless of the level of her dance technique.
3) Becoming confident in and comfortable with performing in everyone’s own way.
4) Accepting and appreciating what she is now.
5) Coming to face with her own emotion and attitude through working with the others.

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The theme of this paper is to know to what extent my class activities adopting Pilates based body-conditioning heightened students’ consciousness of body and mind. In order to do so, in my class, I made the time for “reflection” to let them acquire and deepen their own “awareness” and after the class, set out questionnaires and worksheets. In this paper, I analyzed the data of those questionnaires and worksheets of my own making which my students answered during each lesson. The result of the analysis showed that students who were participated in my class activities recognize the importance of such skills as “objective understanding of the state of their own mind and body”, “posture and behavior conscious of the center of body”, and “the method of relaxation” and practice these skills occasionally and voluntarily, even in their everyday life. Nowadays, there is a warning that the students’ state of health is rapidly deteriorating. Thus we must develop a new type of class of physical education which can cope well with such a crucial situation. The result of this research suggests a new way of instruction which should be used in the class of today’s university level’s physical education.

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