middle school dance teacher   

fall 2003-spring 2004

4th period with 17 seventh and eighth grade students

class meeting monday, wednesday, friday for approximately 40 minutes

 

"The Techniques, History and Appreciation of the Art of Dance"  syllabus

an introductory course focusing on modern dance technique... exercises in improvisation, choreography, movement analysis, movement as communication, gesture, musicality, culture, history, origins, locations, anatomy, strength and flexibility, alignment, coordination, expressivity, body research-memory, emotion, documentation, movement as knowledge, patterning, navigation, trust, "the power of dance"

journal entries... first day, april 2004