Lesson Tag: Dance
Welcome back! This module covers:
- Acknowledgement To Country
- Introduction
- The explanation of the Storyline, Choreography, intentions
- Warm Up
- Explaining the Choreography
- Teaching of Choreography
- Practising Choreography with music
- Warm Down
- Outro
Congratulations!
Welcome back, this module covers:
- Warm up: Pulse those arms
- The Charleston – Part 4: ‘You’re a star’
- Stretch: Are you watching this on an Apple iPatch?
Music by Andrew Howes
Modules 1 – 6 are yoga and place-based contemporary dance workshops that include breath work, yoga series’, contemporary dance phrases, improvisation tasks and choreographic tasks. Each module is a chance to focus the mind, release and strengthen the body while learning something new. Let’s move and create together.
Welcome. Today’s module will cover:
- Check list – Safe Dance Practice
- Breath practice – Balanced breath
- Warm-up
- Chest and back opening yoga series
- Introduction to improvisation in response to natural elements
- Learn and rehearse an arm phrase
- Cool-down
- Chest and back opening yoga series
Module 1 complete. Congratulations!
“Wind Song” Music by Elena Kats Chernin, Riley Lee & Christina Leonard
Warm up & Cool Down Music by Oscar Sweeney
Join Jacob and Andrew Howes as they sprint (teleport) through 500 years of dance. Over two 20-minute modules, you will gain an insight into the historical and cultural influences which shaped ballet and contemporary dance and be guided through various ballet and contemporary dance exercises which highlight some of the differences between these two dance genres. Each module will also include a cool down stretch.
- Plies: ‘Diamonds are a dancer’s best friend’
- Petit allegro: ‘Jumping to escape change’
- Small jump: ‘We don’t want to become old, decrepit… people’
- Roll down stretch: ‘A-frame is for articulate’
Music by Andrew Howes
Join Jacob and Andrew Howes as they sprint (teleport) through 500 years of dance. Over two 20-minute modules, you will gain an insight into the historical and cultural influences which shaped ballet and contemporary dance and be guided through various ballet and contemporary dance exercises which highlight some of the differences between these two dance genres. Each module will also include a cool down stretch.
- Mirroring the force with Yoda
- Understanding ballet: Legal courts and aristocats
- Port de bras: ‘Don’t be a chook’
- Understanding contemporary dance: Breaking rules to create your own style
- Arm swing: ‘To catch a figure eight’
- Roll down stretch: ‘A-frame is for articulate’
Music by Andrew Howes
Welcome back, Module 3 covers:
- Warm up: Isolations in isolation – ft. Michelle Leonard’s dulcet tones
- The Charleston – Part 3: ‘The Jay Bird’
- Stretch: What’s missing a peg leg, an eyepatch and a pet parrot? You in this next exercise.
Music by Andrew Howes
Welcome back! Module 2 covers:
- Warm up: lunging towards grapevines only to burpee
- The Charleston – Part 2: Don’t speak to me, don’t speak to me, I’m in pain, distress”
- Stretch: Bury the rum and cool down with some drums.
Music by Andrew Howes
Module 3 is specifically designed as a rhythmic extension for those in upper primary and high school to compliment the skills learnt in the previous two modules. Join Tainga in beautiful Cobar as he works systematically with you to extend the dance and rhythmic complexities he showed in Module 2 for the sit down dance.
Learn more about his culture and artistic inspiration – and have WAY too much fun!!!
Welcome back. Today’s module covers:
- Check list – Safe Dance Practice
- Observe the space
- Breath practice – Balanced breath
- Warm-up
- Pummelling
- Isolations
- Perform an improvised score from your observations and perception of the space
- Choreograph 3 phrases
a. Your own phrase
b. A travelling phrase
c. A manipulated version of Courtney’s phrase
- Structure your work
- Perform your choreographic work
Module 6 complete. Congratulations!
“Wind Song” Music by Elena Kats Chernin, Riley Lee, Christina Leonard
Warm up & cool down music by Oscar Sweeney
