academies, acrobatic, adagio, affect, allemande, appreciation, art, artistic, attribute, audience, authentic
ballet, Ballet Russe, ballroom, band, barre, bearing, beauty, beguine, blend, body, bolero, bop, born to, bow, buff, bunny hop
cakewalk, cancan, celebration, cha-cha, characteristic, Charleston, choreography, chorus dancers, classes, classical, clockwise, clog, collaborative, communication, competent, complex, composition, conga, costumes, cotillion, craft, cultural, culture, curtsy
dancing master, decor, delicate, description, design, develop, devotion, dip, direction, director, disco
effect, effective, effort, effortless, elegance, emote, emotion, energy, entertainment, exercise, experimental, expertise, expressive, extraordinary
facility, fandango, fashionable, featured, flamenco, fling, floor, folk dancing, form, formal, fox trot, free, frequency, function, funds, future
garment, gavotte, gesture, glide, grace, grant, groups, gymnasium
high-stepping, hora, hula
ideal, identify with, imitation, improvise, individuality, informal, inspiration, inspired by, interpret, interpretation
jazz, jig, jitterbug, joyful, jump
kind
leap, leotard, lift, light, line
major, make up, mambo, mastery, Maypole, mazurka, minor, minuet, mix, modern dance, money, mood, motion, movement, movies, music, musical, musicality
novice, numbers
orchestra, organized, original
partner, passion, patterns, penchant, person, piece, polka, popular dancing, portray, position, posture, powerful, practice, precision, pressure, primitive, production, program, proportion, purpose
quadrille, quality, quick
recreation, reel, rehearsal, rehearse, revel, revelation, rhythm, rise, role, rotation
shuffle, space, spectacle, spectator, speed, square dancing, star, steps, strut, student, studio, style, suggestive, support, sway, swirl, symbolic
talent, tango, tap-dancing, tarantella, teaching, technical, technique, tempos, theater, theatrical, themes, therapy, time, timing, tour, touring, traditional, tribute, troupe, tuck, twirl, twist, type
unitards, upright
variety, visual
waltz, whimsy, wield
zeal
Dance Lesson plan and discussion ideas:
1. Some Modern dance pioneers include Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, Emile Jacques-Dalcoze, Rudolf von Laban. Research their biographies and write about several of them.
2. Study the following ballet dancers and choreographers. Do you have a favorite or favorites? Why? What has been their influence? Alvin Ailey, Fred Astaire, Isadore Duncan, Martha Graham, Jose Greco, Twyla Tharp
3. List at least five reasons why people choose to dance. Discuss them. Do you enjoy dancing? Why? When?
4. Discuss types of dances, naming at least five types that appeal to you.
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