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Students will dance in a circle to three different pieces of music, changing their speed to match each song.
Medium: Dance
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Book Inspired Dance with Nicole McCall
Using things found in the world around them (a book), students will make observations and then improvise moves that feel connected to their source inspiration. Developing creativity in dance requires experimentation and exploration using a variety of sources as inspiration for movement to represent personal and/or symbolic meaning.
Medium: Dance
Connecting Through Dance with Jaese Lecuyer
Students will use a set of action verbs to explore ways of creating a movement vocabulary that expresses their ideas.
Medium: Dance
Contando Y Sintiendo Sin Palabras with Luciana Proaño
Students willl learn to feel comfortable in their body regardless of what they are expressing.
Medium: Dance
Dance Your Feelings with Lindsi Kay
Students will learn how to use dance movement to express their feelings responsibly. students will identify emotions, and how they can use movement qualities like tempo and speed to release their feelings through dance.
Medium: Dance
Dancing On The Beat with Mayela Poareo Davidson
Students will learn what it means to keep a beat, and then, what it feels like to stay on or off the beat.
Medium: Dance
Emotion Dance with Nicole McCall
Students will create a dance improvisation using that expresses how they feel when they are doing an activity that brings them joy. As a part of this lesson students will deepen their self awareness, explore DANCE MOVES AND ENERGY as creative tools, and create an improvisation expressing different kinds of feelings.
Medium: Dance
Express your style! with Ariadne Grace
Students will learn how flow, gesture and isolation can help their bodies express their feelings to others. They will celebrate and express their unique individuality and ability to connect with others, and then see how their own individuality makes the ‘whole’ more beautiful, affirming their sense of belonging.
Medium: Dance
Folklore Dance with Luciana Proaño
Starting with an individual seed movement, students will collaborate to create a sequence of movements and a full choreography to demonstrate their class culture.
Medium: Dance
Hawaiian Hula with Lisa Chang
Students will learn that being taught Hawaiian hula dance is not just learning a dance form but will be learning about the Hawaiian language and culture.
Medium: Dance
Konbit Haitian Dance of Community with David Durosier
Students will develop the ability to coordinate dance movements with drum rhythms. Students will learn the value of collaboration, patience, and offering positive reinforcement to themselves and others.
Medium: Dance
Let’s Dance and Make Shapes with Nikki Flinn
Students will explore dance through observation, embodiment, and improvise elements from nature and shapes through movement, and connection.
Medium: Dance
Making A Dance with Subashini Ganesan
Students will learn a Sanskrit poem and matching hand gestures, then work together using these gestures to make a dance that includes the whole group.
Medium: Dance
Making A Movement Story with Maia McCarthy
Students will select and analyze a simple text, for example idioms, to decide how they want to tell the story of that text using movement only. They will ask another classmate for feedback and decide which feedback to use to more clearly convey their meaning
Medium: Dance
Movement and Emotion with Rachael Brown
Students will learn how music affects quality of movement. They will also explore how movement and physical cues can indicate emotion in themselves and others.
Medium: Dance
Moving Like A Butterfly with Jill Giedt
Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and use their observations to express themselves through their own dance movements. Throughout the lesson, students will develop a sense of individuality and learn what makes them unique.
Medium: Dance
Observational Thinking and Dance with Nicole MCall
The focus of this lesson is to teach students Observational Thinking as a way to give feedback in an open-minded, curious, and non-judgmental manner. Students will create short dances based on a personal emotion, watch each other perform, then share observations and feedback to help each other see how their moves are understood by an audience.
Medium: Dance
Ocean Waves with Jill Giedt
In this module, students will explore the connection between their emotions and the world around them through movement. They will learn to identify various emotions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, and calmness, and express these feelings by associating them with the waves of an ocean—gentle ripples, crashing waves, and calm seas.
Medium: Dance
Phoenix Dance with Jill Giedt
Students will explore the theme of fire and rebirth by embodying the mythological phoenix in dance. Students will practice safe dance techniques and learn choreography that emphasize dynamic and fluid motions inspired by flames and a phoneix's rebirth.
Medium: Dance
Ritmos y Tempos con la Danza Azteca with Danza Azteca (Quetzalli Carlos and Jose Carlos)
Students will learn basic dance skills by following the rhythm and tempo of the Aztec drum. Students will learn the steps of Xochitlquetzal (precious flower) dance.
Medium: Dance
The Dragon Dance with Jill Giedt
Students will learn to express themselves through movement and the art of ballet. The guided videos will take them along the journey of a dragon and allow them to observe how different stages of the story make them feel.
Medium: Dance
