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SECTION 3: DANCE FUNDAMENTALS (cont’d)
4. Provide opportunities for students to view cultural forms and Dance in different genres and
identify dance fundamentals embedded in them.
5. Explore movements from various genres to teach fundamental concepts and skills such as
alignment, walks, runs, gallops, turns, leaps, jumps, musicality, presentation and performance.
6. Engage students in drill and practice exercises to provide opportunities for the repetition of
technical skills.
7. Engage student in activities such as Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to allow them to rehearse
definitions of dance terminologies, vocabulary for specific terms related to performance, style
and movement patterns.
8. Engage students in floor work, centre work, moving across the floor and in the centre activities,
jumps and aerial work.
9. Engage students in execution of combinations, phrases and sequences.
10. Engage student in exercises that work the spine: straight, curved, spirals and contractions, and
roll downs.
11. Engage students in fundamental exercises such as bending and stretching: arms and legs such
as plies, rises, releve.
12. Engage students in exercises that target working the feet and legs: stretched and flexed, use
of the legs on the floor and in the air (brushes, swings, kicks).
13. Engage students in activities that reinforce positions of the feet and arms (first, second, third,
fourth and fifth).
14. Engage students in activities that focus on turns (low, medium and high levels), spotting, and
breaks.
15. Engage students in activities that focus on jumps/leaps: From two feet, from one foot.
16. Engage students in activities that focus on rolls.
17. Engage students in activities that focus on exercises executing parallel and turn out positions
and movements.
18. Engage students in activities that target relationship of body parts in movement execution
(dynamic alignment).
19. Use the internet, text and field visits to show students dance productions in various settings
and from various regions.
20. Encourage students to engage in video and audio creation and/or editing of their own work or
the work of others.
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