Courtney Scheu – Dance – Choreography a Phrase

Welcome back. Today’s lesson 

  • Check list – Safe Dance Practice 
  • Breath practice – Alternate nostril breathing 
  • Warm-up 
  • Neck release 
  • Lying yoga series including twists, hamstring slides and 
  • Seated yoga series for the sides and spine 
  • Improvisation exercise – Loop 
  • Choreograph a phrase representing different qualities of the wind 
  • Cool-down 
  • Side bends 
  • Forward Fold 

Module 5 complete. Congratulations! 

“Wind Song” Music by Elena Kats Chernin, Riley Lee, Christina Leonard

Warm up & cool down music by Oscar Sweeney

Courtney Scheu – Dance – Swinging Twists

Welcome back. Today’s module will cover

  • Check list – Safe Dance Practice 
  • Breath practice – Valoma 2 
  • Warm-up 
  • Swinging twists plus bonus massage 
  • Arm and hand yoga series for the medial nerve that runs down the arm 
  • Tree pose 
  • Choreograph a phrase – Postcard from where you are 
  • Cool-down 
  • Arm and hand yoga series for the medial nerve 
  • Forward fold 

Module 4 complete. Congratulations! 

“Wind Song” Music by Elena Kats Chernin, Riley Lee, Christina Leonard

Warm up & cool down music by Oscar Sweeney

Courtney Scheu – Dance – Wrist & Arm Strengthening

Welcome back. Today’s lesson 

  • Check list – Safe Dance Practice
  • Breath practice – Extended exhale
  • Warm-up
  • Roll downs through the spine
  • Seated chair yoga series
  • Single-leg balance yoga series
  • Learn and rehearse a contemporary dance phrase focusing on suspended, sustained
  • movements
  • Add your own choreography to the end of the phrase
  • Cool-down
  • Chest and back opening yoga series
  • Neck release
  • Module 3 complete. Congratulations! 

“Wind Song” Music by Elena Kats Chernin, Riley Lee, Christina Leonard

Warm up & cool down music by Oscar Sweene

Courtney Scheu – Dance – Active Tree Pose

Welcome back. Today’s lesson 

  • Check list – Safe Dance Practice 
  • Breath practice – Balanced breath with pause 
  • Warm-up 
  • Active tree pose and crescent lunge series 
  • Learn and rehearse dynamic contemporary dance phrase moving into and out of the ground 
  • Cool-down 
  • Roll downs 
  • Standing cat cow yoga series 

Module 2 complete. Congratulations! 

“Wind Song” Music by Elena Kats Chernin, Riley Lee, Christina Leonard

Warm up & cool down music by Oscar Sweeney

Neville Williams Boney – Dance – Aboriginal Animal Dances

Welcome Back!  This module covers:

  • Acknowledgement To Country 
  • Introduction 
  • Aboriginal Animal Dances 
  • Warm Up 
  • Explaining the Choreography 
  • Teaching of Choreography 
  • Practising Choreography with music 
  • Warm Down 
  • Outro

Music by Kevin Barker  

Neville Williams Boney – Dance – Aboriginal Dinewan Story

Welcome Back!  This module covers:

  • Acknowledgement To Country 
  • Introduction 
  • Aboriginal Dinewan Story 
  • Aboriginal Dance Techniques 
  • Warm Up 
  • Explaining the Choreography 
  • Teaching of Choreography 
  • Practising Choreography with music 
  • Warm Down 
  • Outro 

Music by Kevin Barker

Neville Williams Boney – Dance – More Emu Facts

Welcome back!  This module covers:

  • Acknowledgement To Country
  • Introduction
  • More Emu Facts
  • Warm Up
  • Explaining the Choreography
  • Teaching of Choreography
  • Practising Choreography with music
  • Warm Down
  • Outro

Music by Kevin Barker

Neville Williams Boney – Dance – Emu Facts

Welcome back!  This module covers:

  • Acknowledgement To Country 
  • Introduction 
  • Emu Facts 
  • Warm Up 
  • Explaining the Choreography 
  • Teaching of Choreography 
  • Practising Choreography with music 
  • Warm Down 
  • Outro 

Music by Kevin Barker

Amy Flannery – Dance – Sit down dance

‘https://vimeo.com/423018724/7ab7c2d054’

In this module we will learn the Sit Down Dance from last year’s Voices girls but without the paper crane.

  • Warm up- Data Dust Instrumental by Alice Chance
  • Ink Dance by Alice Chance
  • Cool Down – Aloe Vera by Alice Chance

Tainga Savage – Dance – Sit Down Dance Part 2

Join Tainga Savage as he shows you a sit down dance component that goes with module one.

Filmed in beautiful Cobar by the weir with lilting paddle-boards behind an early morning sunrise this module will transport you to the Torres Strait Islands as you learn how to add in the movement to the vocal line and language learnt in module one. Sitting down has never been more fun!

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