Dancing on and with chairs? We learned that it’s possible in just one hour with Tanzhaus NRW. As part of an imaginative story, we tried out all kinds of movements to a wide variety of music—sometimes soft and slow, sometimes fast and loud. We were able to invent our own moves and demonstrate them, and the whole room followed along. During the freestyle session, some children were especially brave and creative. Was that dancing? In a way, yes, and yet somehow completely different from what we’d known before. We learned that you can tell stories through dancing. It was “kind of weird and kind of cool.”

Margret Schellen