Today is National Dance Day! How cool is that? Thanks to the efforts of Nigel Lythgoe who-- in addition to his work on So You Think You Can Dance is also the co-founder of the Dizzy Feet Foundation (DFF)-- launched National Dance Day in 2010 to encourage all Americans to make dancing an everyday part of their lives. Part of the foundation's purpose is to increase access to dance education in the schools, something we can get behind at Jitterbug!
Clicking this Educator Resources link on the website will open access to five free teacher manuals for high school and college level classes. Based on the National Core Arts Standards, the manuals and student questionnaires are for DANCE, THEATRE, MUSIC (Composition and Ensemble strands), LITERATURE, and HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES. All of them include NCAS sections on empathy. Each pdf file if read online has multimedia reference links that allow students with just one click to see the kinds of dancing found in the dancical as well as to hear music from the swing era.
For those who follow this blog, you know that we encourage choreographers to "reach into the future for dance steps never seen before on the Savoy Ballroom dance floor circa 1931" in order to win the climatic dance contest-- especially in the breakaway. This year's National Dance Day routine has more than a few steps that could be appropriated from the future! So watch, dance, and enjoy!
Clicking this Educator Resources link on the website will open access to five free teacher manuals for high school and college level classes. Based on the National Core Arts Standards, the manuals and student questionnaires are for DANCE, THEATRE, MUSIC (Composition and Ensemble strands), LITERATURE, and HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES. All of them include NCAS sections on empathy. Each pdf file if read online has multimedia reference links that allow students with just one click to see the kinds of dancing found in the dancical as well as to hear music from the swing era.
For those who follow this blog, you know that we encourage choreographers to "reach into the future for dance steps never seen before on the Savoy Ballroom dance floor circa 1931" in order to win the climatic dance contest-- especially in the breakaway. This year's National Dance Day routine has more than a few steps that could be appropriated from the future! So watch, dance, and enjoy!
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