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    Dance Lessons For Beginners AGES: High School Description

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    This document provides details for a beginner dance lesson plan for students in a high school musical production. The lesson introduces students with no dance experience to basic dance steps and positions over the course of a 2 hour session. It includes teaching individual steps, putting them together into an 8 count combination for students to practice in groups, and using a rubric to evaluate students' performance of the combination. The goal is to prepare students with a variety of dance abilities for the choreography in the musical.

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    This document provides details for a beginner dance lesson plan for students in a high school musical production. The lesson introduces students with no dance experience to basic dance steps and positions over the course of a 2 hour session. It includes teaching individual steps, putting them together into an 8 count combination for students to practice in groups, and using a rubric to evaluate students' performance of the combination. The goal is to prepare students with a variety of dance abilities for the choreography in the musical.

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    This document provides details for a beginner dance lesson plan for students in a high school musical production. The lesson introduces students with no dance experience to basic dance steps and positions over the course of a 2 hour session. It includes teaching individual steps, putting them together into an 8 count combination for students to practice in groups, and using a rubric to evaluate students' performance of the combination. The goal is to prepare students with a variety of dance abilities for the choreography in the musical.

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    Dance Lessons For Beginners AGES: High School Description

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    This document provides details for a beginner dance lesson plan for students in a high school musical production. The lesson introduces students with no dance experience to basic dance steps and positions over the course of a 2 hour session. It includes teaching individual steps, putting them together into an 8 count combination for students to practice in groups, and using a rubric to evaluate students' performance of the combination. The goal is to prepare students with a variety of dance abilities for the choreography in the musical.

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    DANCE LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS

    AGES: High School

    DESCRIPTION
    Starting from scratch & teaching the basics with non-dancers for a High School
    Musical Production. Only brief/informal instructions.

    MATERIALS
    Good music that's upbeat and consistent in tempo. Plus one song for use of a
    mini-choreography.

    FULL LESSON PLAN


    Our school offers a variety of fine arts programs, but not dance. Typically in a
    large cast of about 45, there are usually about 5 kids who seriously dance, and
    then a smattering of students who danced "when they were young" and many
    who have never danced at all. So, in our first choreography rehearsal, I don't
    even touch actual choreography. I'm also working in a large room with about 40
    kids at once in a 2 hour span. I teach the basics from 1st position to push
    turns to pique turns. We go over the steps a few times, especially steps I know I
    will be using in the choreography. If you do have dancers in the mix, scatter
    them throughout the crowd to help. I will try to use proper terminology; however,
    sometimes it's easier to use a description eg. pas de bourree- sometimes just
    doesn't stick with the non-dancers right away.

    Then I will teach them a mini-combination as a large group. I would use about 8
    dance steps that combines basics, traveling steps and at least one turn and one
    jump. Then they get into groups of about 5 and have time to practice. Then
    each group will perform the combination and I mark it using a rubric I found on
    the web - alack I can not find the website again. There are many many
    resources on the web, and of course the rubric needs to match your purpose.
    Our students are registered in Musical Theatre Course, so they do receive marks
    (for a variety of assessments). I will enter three dance marks over the course of
    the semesters - one from this lesson, one half way, and one for the performance
    week. When you put together the combination, use sets of 8's this time - it's
    easier on the students who have never danced.

    The students become really supportive of one another in this one lesson alone,
    and the boys especially become willing to take risks and perform in front of their
    peers. At the end of the mini-performances, if there is time, I will slip in some
    more difficult steps (eg. Barrel turns - we did Oklahoma! this past year) so they
    can practice them on their own.

    Some basics I teach day one:


    1st position, 2nd postion
    Step Touch, step point, step heel
    plie/sways
    Grapevine
    hitch kicks
    chaine
    chasse
    jazz runs
    push turn
    "turning grapevine"
    chasse ball change
    ball change (stamp together)
    kick ball change
    "going nowhere's"
    battement
    pique (turns)
    stag leaps
    arabesque
    basic jumps (eg. tuck jumps)

    Obviously, if the theatre production isn't for marks, the rubric isn't necessary.
    Another aside, we used to have a daytime class, and this allowed for a dance
    section where students were able to choreograph their own dance number to a
    song in a musical.

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