SCHOOL PROGRAMS – OUTCOMES

 

 

·        Master partner dancing skills: posture, connection, frame, weight shift, safe body mechanics, footwork, turns, spins, jumps, leading/following, musicality, styling

 

·        Recognize and move to a variety of 6 & 8 count rhythm patterns - quicks & slows

 

·        Experience team-of-two partnership communication

 

·        Experience improvisational nature of dance partnering to music

 

·        Learn to hear music through expressive movement structured  in congruence with the song

 

·        Understand music: use of instruments, vocalist interaction with instruments, structure

 

·        Gain sense of the cultural period the music/dance  reflects

 

·        Enable opportunity for risking self-expression in a group setting without self-consciousness

 

·        Experience combination of structured movement with music -  not currently in the peer culture

 

·        Develop ability to dance with peers/others at social events -  school,  family and community

 

 

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