Creative Dance for All Ages 2nd Edition
This second edition of the classic text directs dance teachers through what they need to know to teach creative dance from pre-K through adult levels in a variety of settings. It includes a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, editable forms, and teacher strategies created by master teacher Anne Green Gilbert.
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Contents
Fundamentals of Teaching Creative Dance | 1 |
Introduction to Creative Dance | 3 |
Planning and Teaching Your Creative Dance Class | 23 |
Developing Your Teaching Skills | 49 |
Warming Up Teaching Technique and Cooling Down | 63 |
Locomotor and Nonlocomotor Movements | 87 |
Concepts and Sample Lesson Plans | 109 |
Place | 111 |
Weight | 233 |
Flow | 247 |
Body Parts | 257 |
Body Shapes | 269 |
Relationships | 283 |
Balance | 301 |
Specialized Lesson Plans | 313 |
Appendix A | 331 |
Level | 125 |
Size | 139 |
Direction | 151 |
Pathway | 165 |
Focus | 181 |
Speed | 193 |
Rhythm | 205 |
Energy | 219 |
Appendix B | 337 |
Appendix C | 341 |
Appendix D | 346 |
Appendix E | 357 |
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About the Author | 365 |
Ad | 366 |
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