NDI at Home: When the Saints Go Marching, Class 1 (Apr 27, 2020)

From National Dance Institute · 2020

NDI at Home: When the Saints Go Marching, Class 1 (Apr 27, 2020)
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Summary

A teach-along class from National Dance Institute (NDI) that builds a specific dance step by step. An NDI teaching artist breaks the choreography into pieces so dancers can learn it and perform it together.

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All ages

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Discussion questions

Discussion

This National Dance Institute class gives students a full-body dance experience.

  1. Which movement was easiest for you, and which was the hardest?
  2. How did the music change the way you moved?
  3. 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.