Hampshire College • Mettler Archive • Creative Dance for Children, pt. 2

“Creative Dance for Children, pt. 2“, 1977. Shot on 16mm film. “Creative Dance for Children“ showcases a series of dance workshops for children lead by Barbara Mettler at her studio. -- Barbara Mettler, dancer, dance educator, author, and film and video producer, developed her own style of modern dance, which emphasized improvisation. Her core principles were beauty, freedom, and democracy. Dance was conceived as a fundamental human activity, of which all people are capable, as opposed to an eli