MoonDance is a magic game of stories – inventing them, writing or recounting or play-acting them, enjoying and sharing them.
There are as many variations as there are players.
The only limitations are the limits of the imagination, and those are very far indeed – much farther than we tend to believe …
MoonDance is for people of all ages and backgrounds. Anyone can play it.
MoonDance
is currently available in English, Spanish and German language versions.
MoonDance comes with its own soundtrack: to relax the body and at the same time stimulate the creative imagination, a music CD is included. It was especially composed for the game.
The coloured segments on the Moon Disc represent eight archetypal segments of a story:
Once upon a time, there was …
He/She/It lived …
He/She/It loved to …
And so on.
For each segment, there is a deck of 20 cards containing characters, activities, places, objects and so on.
Starting with the segment ‘Once upon a time, there was …’, the player picks any of the cards of the same colour and turns it over. It might read ‘… a dancer’. Maybe he or she begins by depicting the dancer. Or one waits until the next card belonging to the segment ‘He/She/It lived …’, and that could say ‘in a forest’ – and the story may start with a description of the surroundings and a dancer’s life in the forest.
With each new card, another image will unfold before the mind’s eye, and all one has to do is translate theses images into written or oral narration and develop or embellish them to one’s own liking.
In the end, there will be a complete story that can be funny, mysterious, or a lot of other things, with surprising twists and turns and solutions to problems.
MoonDance can be played on one’s own or in groups.
Children, adolescents and adults
Trains expressive language proficiencies
Children, adolescents and adults
Intermediary and advanced levels
Combined individual and group activity
Speech therapists, occupational therapists, psychotherapists, all kinds of therapeutic approaches that encourage expression