TYPES OF DANCE

TEACHING CHILDREN AND TYPES OF DANCE  Getting ready for dance As adults, we often mistake children for being indestructible when it comes to exercise-related injuries and niggles. However, it's important to teach children about having a proper warm-up and cool-down routine so that they can avoid these problems when they grow older. If you’re  getting ready for dance  lessons with your class, you’ll need to ensure they’re nice and  warmed-up ! This makes the chance of injury from the exercise much smaller, and means they will be able to perform the moves to the best of their ability. Take a look at this warm-up below. Your KS1 class will perform three different types of activities: warm-up games, aerobic warm-ups and stretches. This gives you plenty of options to tailor the warm-up to the abilities of your class. Why not let a different child lead the warm-up session each week? Teaching dance in primary school Have you heard of Twinkl Move? It’s an ever-growing treasu...

  What is creative dance? Creative Dance  is a contemporary form of dance that combines movement and artistic expression, without the need for specific training. Typically, creative dance focuses on the development of motor skills and emotional expression, as opposed to the aesthetics based focus of dance in more traditional structured settings. This is why  creative dance  is explored with children when they are young - it allows for people of all abilities to take part and succeed. Creative dance  is a combination of all different styles of dance, and children can create their own dance personalities and choreography. Why is creative dance important? Creative dance  is important for children to learn because it has been shown to have a positive effect on social and cognitive functioning. This helps improve children’s confidence and academic performance. Another benefit of  creative dance  for children is that it helps them become more spacially ...

THE HISTORY OF DANCE💃 Continue to read this teaching wiki to discover a quick  history of dance  you can tell to your children to get them excited for their dance lessons! It’s believed that the oldest proof of the existence of dance is from paintings that were found in caves in India, created 9000 years ago. These paintings show various scenes of communal drinking, religious rites, hunting, childbirth, burials and, of course, dancing. By looking at the tomb paintings that survived Egyptian times, it was believed that priests used musical instruments and dancers to show important events, stories of gods, and cosmic patterns of moving stars and sun. In Ancient Greece dance was often enjoyed by the public, most notably just before the Olympic Games, as early as 8th century B.C! Dance developed further over the following centuries, and it became an activity for everyone, not just to signal a ritual or event. A painting discovered from 1400 B.C. showed people dancing to entertain...

  DANCE  is a performing art form, which consists of sequences of movement. These sequences can be pre-planned (choreographed), or improvised (made up as the dancer is dancing). The value of  dance  is that is it can have both aesthetic (what it looks like) and symbolic (how it makes you feel) merit to the audience. How can we categorise dance? Dance  can be categorised and described by: The historical period in which it was created. Where the  dance  was created. The types of movements or choreography in the  dance . How to teach a dance routine Teaching a  dance  routine isn’t as simple as you may think. Everyone’s body has different capabilities, such as flexibility balance and coordination. Here are some tips to help you teach a dance routine to children as successfully as possible: Make sure everyone has warmed-up before you begin teaching the dance routine to avoid any injuries. Break the routine up into manageable chunks, so the c...