Dance Education: Basic principles and models for Nursery and Primary School

CONTENIDO:

- Part One: Fundamental considerations
Survey of various types of dance and movement training
The combination of dance, music and language
The development of the child's basic power of movement
Play and movement for today's children
Curriculum for dance education in nursery and primary schools

- Part Two: Preparing the ground for teaching
Problems of organisation
Different approaches to teaching (imitative-creative)
Combination with other subjet areas

- Part Three: Material for dance education
Explanation of notation
Preparatory exercises for relaxed movement and music-making
The space, time and dynamic aspect of movement performance
Summary of various types of movement
The setting of task that give experience of the concept of time, dynamics, space, and form
Movement accompaniment
Improvisation
Comoposition of dances

- Part Four: Survey of material according to age groups
General aspects of teh arrangement of material
Characteristics of the three age ranges
Tabulated survey of classified material

- Part Five: Lesson examples
Age range 1: four to six years
Age range 2: six to eight years
Age range 3: eight to ten years

Glossary
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