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Building More Dances: Blueprints for Putting Movements Together
Building More Dances Blueprints for Putting Movements Together Author:Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Helene Scheff, Marty Sprague Even if you've never taught or choreographed dance before, Building Dances provides all the tools and blueprints you need to create and facilitate dances. This how-to book will help you introduce, develop, and assess the basics of choreography in grades K-12. Accompanied by the unique Deal-a-Dance card deck that provides 224 movement ideas, thi... more »s reader-friendly reference takes you step-by-step through the choreographic process. You'll find sample lesson plans; guidelines for teaching the skills involved; suggestions for organizing movements; ideas for stylizing and individualizing dances; 112 Deal-a-Dance cards; 9 dance construction models for designing dances; age-appropriate adaptations for grades K-3, 4-6, and 7-12; student outcome/assessment forms and sample criteria; summaries; and a glossary that explains important dance terms in everyday language. Building Dances depicts construction models mapping out simple and complex movements that can be made into a dance. Some of these movements use the entire body, others use various body parts in isolation or together. You can adapt the construction models to design a single lesson, a dance unit, a semester unit, and even a year-long program. The book is accompanied by a unique deck of 112 Deal-a-Dance cards that provide movement examples students can try out right away. These cards offer 224 teacher-tested and student-appreciated ideas for choreographing dances in four categories, including dance techniques, elements that change movements, sport and game movements, and creative suggestions. Students can mix and match the movement examples to create unlimited dances. The variety of activities makes this book great for grades K-12. You can also use the book to satisfy many of the dance content components of the National Standards for Art Education. Whether you're a physical education teacher, drama teacher or coach, music teacher, dance teacher, classroom teacher, or recreation specialist, Building Dances will help you stimulate your students' imaginations as they build their own dances.« less