Teaching Tap Improvisation: Exercises for Beginners
March 10, 2010 · Posted by Dance Advantage ·
After years of slightly embarrassing moments in front of peers and master teachers, I decided the time had come to develop a thorough improvisation syllabus based on advice from as many great hoofers as possible. I’ll be sharing some of that work with you. Here are the first exercises I present to my students.
Beginning Improvisation Exercises
(Appropriate for students of all ages and levels, unless otherwise noted)
Exercise 1: Group Nursery Rhymes
Goal: Get feet connected to brains, and get students moving!
Choose a song that everyone knows. My suggestion is “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for the first time you try this. ...
Teaching Tap Improvisation: Exercises for Beginners
March 10, 2010 · Posted by Dance Advantage ·
After years of slightly embarrassing moments in front of peers and master teachers, I decided the time had come to develop a thorough improvisation syllabus based on advice from as many great hoofers as possible. I’ll be sharing some of that work with you. Here are the first exercises I present to my students.
Beginning Improvisation Exercises
(Appropriate for students of all ages and levels, unless otherwise noted)
Exercise 1: Group Nursery Rhymes
Goal: Get feet connected to brains, and get students moving!
Choose a song that everyone knows. My suggestion is “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for the first time you try this. ...
An Education
February 24, 2010 · Posted by Dance, music and life: graceegirl ·
Education is the key to success. It’s true; if you don’t believe me, ask my mum. Since before I could tell the time, this adage was drummed into me by family and friends. Study hard, they told me; then you’ll be able to get yourself a respectable, useful degree, land your dream job and live happily ever after.So I studied, got the grades and began my ‘useful’ double-degree combo of Media and Communications and Law. I even signed on for a Diploma of Modern Languages in Japanese, just because I could. Six months later, having seen the proverbial light, I ...
From Many Mouths, From the Horse’s Mouth
February 24, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
photo by Tom Brazil
Over 75 dancers will gather at the 92nd Street Y this weekend to perform in From the Horse’s Mouth, a celebratory dance-theater piece that blends storytelling and exceptional dancing. The performances and stellar roster of performers kick off the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival. Created by Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham in 1998, From the Horse’s Mouth will feature 25 different dancers at each performance, all of whom will share personal stories from their lives and movement of their own choosing. The lineup of performers includes Wendy Perron, Deborah Jowitt, Arthur Aviles, Carmen de Lavallade, Grover ...
Interview with Mika Miyabara & Tatsuo Sugimoto: Bouncing Pixels and Images
February 22, 2010 · Posted by Personal Cyber Botanica ·
Ooh la la… another interesting interview taken during Device_art 3.009… Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto are media artists from Japan who have been working on visual interactive projects since 2001.
Bounce Street exhibited on Device_art 3.009
photo taken from flickr: Movie Cards Project (c)
They met back in 2001 at IAMAS heaving formerly carriers in design and cinematography. [...]
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Higher education disrupted by Haiti earthquake
February 14, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti
by Marc Lacey, The New York Times, February 13, 2010InfiniteBody
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Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti
by Marc Lacey, The New York Times, February 13, 2010InfiniteBody
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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New Ballet in Yale’s “Prokofiev Rediscovered”
February 8, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Adam Hendrickson, photo by Joe Anderson
Tonight at 8 PM, New York City Ballet soloist Adam Hendrickson’s newest ballet will premiere at the Yale School of Music’s program Prokofiev Rediscovered. The event will be streamed live from Yale, and also performed tomorrow night, February 9th, at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Tickets are available online. Hendrickson’s ballet, commissioned by the Yale School of Music, is part of a program that will feature recently discovered Prokofiev work, all played by pianist and Prokofiev specialist Boris Berman. The ballet is set to Prokofiev’s 1939 Music for Athletic Exercises – a piece that has never ...
Creating effective education
February 6, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Playing to Learn
by Susan Engel, The New York Times, February 2, 2010InfiniteBody
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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February 6, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Playing to Learn
by Susan Engel, The New York Times, February 2, 2010InfiniteBody
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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Higher education disrupted by Haiti earthquake
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