NDI at Home: Warm-Up (Jun 3, 2020)
From National Dance Institute · 2020
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Summary
A short dance warm-up from National Dance Institute (NDI). An NDI teaching artist leads simple, safe movements to get bodies ready to dance — a quick way to start a lesson or reset the room.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This National Dance Institute class gives students a full-body dance experience.
- Which movement was easiest for you, and which was the hardest?
- How did the music change the way you moved?
- What is one dance step you learned that you could teach a friend?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: locomotor (traveling) movement, non-locomotor (in-place) movement, phrase, warm-up.
Try it: Clear a safe space and dance along with the whole class. Afterward, invent a short movement phrase with a beginning, middle, and end, and show it to a partner.