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Creativity
What is Creativity?
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Creativity Defined
The Dictionary defines “creativity ” as . . .“the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships etc. and to create meaningful new ideas,
forms, methods, interpretations etc. originality, progressiveness, or imagination”
Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
Wikipedia
Creative thinking should be both original and appropriate
In simpler terms. . .
A simple modern conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.ImaginationInnovationoriginality and appropriatenessNew ideas… which work!
Benefits of Creativity
In every activity, being creative is important.
In the most activities you require creativity in order to devise appropriate solutions to the specific problems you are faced with.
Creativity in Games
Example - Attacker with ball must get past defenders.Attacker’s creativity could provide the solution, as he could pass the defender by doing something new with the ball e.g. a new trickOR . . The attacker do a something which is not necessarily new e.g. a step over in football/crossover in basketball.This is an example of being RE-CREATIVE Performing skills which have been done before, but in that individual player’s own unique way.
Creativity in Dance
In dance, being creative plays a very important role in the expression of emotions and ideas through movement, in an original way.It is this expression of ideas, through creative movements (often linked with the accompanying music) which allows the dance to be easily interpreted.This, of course, is very important as the aim of most dance performance is to convey an idea or express and emotion to an audience.
Summary
Creativity helps us as performers to invent new solutions to problems we are faced with in any activity.Creative thinking should provide original and appropriate solutions to the problems faced.When an individual performs their own unique version of something which has been done before, they are said to be being re-creative.
Task
1) What is creativity?2) Choose an activity. Write down an
example of why creativity is beneficial in that activity.
3)Choose a different activity which you have participated in recently. Write down an example of how you were creative.
4) What is re-creativity?5) In dance, why is creativity important?
