Acting out weather changes. Can you guess which season this is?
About Me
- Danceman
- My name is Mark Burton and I enjoy being the choreographer for the Oak Grove Show Choir. I attend UTC and perform with the UTC Wesley Foundation Praise and Worship team on the keyboards. I am available as an artist-in-residence in movement/dance and drama.
Show Choir Rehearsal
Learning a new dance...The elements of dance are BEST (Body, Energy, Space, Time)
Crossing the Midline, Cross lateral Movement and Brain Development
Crossing the Midline, Cross-Lateral Movement & Brain Development "Crossing the midline" refers to the ability to move a part of the body-- such as a hand, foot or eye-- into the space of the other hand, foot or eye. Being able to cross the midline indicates that the child has reached the point in his or her development that the right and left side of the brain are working in tandem. An example of crossing the midline is using your right hand to reach over your body and scratch your left elbow. Connecting the two sides of the brain is a fiber bridge known as the corpus callosum. When children do cross-lateral movements (arm and leg movements that cross over from one side of the body to the other) the two sides of the brain are forced to communicate and this strengthens the nerve-cell pathways that link both sides of the brain through the corpus callosum. Crossing the midline is necessary for reading and writing because in order to read and write one must work from one side of the paper to the other fluidly.
Mirror Dance
Value Plus Summer Intensive at The Renaissance Center in Dickson, TN