The Scarf Song:
Inside the Dance
“Teaching children can look and feel wild and frenzied. There are clashing voices and chaotic movement, with big emotions driving it all. But from this arises an understanding of the world and themselves.”- Ms. Shirel
I use my original Scarf Song to help children practice directional language and balancing movement. For this piece, I reversed the audio and deconstructed its lyrics and melodies, unraveling its structure to reflect the unpredictable rhythm of young children learning in motion.
I use my original Scarf Song to help children practice directional language and balancing movement. For this piece, I reversed the audio and deconstructed its lyrics and melodies, unraveling its structure to reflect the unpredictable rhythm of young children learning in motion.
Ms. Shirel
What counterspells are present in your work?
This work embraces the wild, unseen energies of learning—how young children make sense of themselves through movement, expression, and sound. By reversing and breaking apart the Scarf Song, I reimagine the way order emerges from chaos. The manipulated audio disorients, creating space to listen differently, to hear new rhythms in what at first seems like disorder.
This piece celebrates the way their unfiltered emotions, tangled voices, and spontaneous movements come together to form something deeply meaningful. The magic isn’t in taming the chaos—it’s in embracing it.