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2) Pas de Cats (Pass the CATS !!!)
The U of L Dance Theatre invites your students to participate in a special instructional program designed to deepen their understanding of the core curriculum in dance.
Suitable for grades 5-11, this program engages your students in a variety of educational exercises. The concepts they explore are then illustrated through special performances by the dancers of the U of L Dance Theatre.
Date: March 16, 2007
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Cost: $5.00/student
Location: School of Music,
Belknap Campus
Reservation: Call (502)852-6878
Save bus fare by booking a tour with the Speed Art Museum sales coordinator for School and adult groups at (502)634-2960 or a program at the Rauch Planetarium (502)852-6665
on the same day.
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Teachers-
With a booking of 30 or more students for any program, you receive a FREE full-color 22-page booklet, Arts Connections:Dance and Visual Arts, which includes activities you can use with your students in your classroom!
(excerpt below)
The basic dance element space is made up of many sub-elements, which we must consider whenever we create, watch, or evaluate a dance. The first of thes sub-elements is level. The dancer's body has a certain relationship to the space from the floor to the top of the visible performance space (e.g. the stage). Levels range from grounded and rooted (crawling, sitting, kneeling, crouching - anything below a slight knee bend; through the middle range (from slightly bent knees to rising up onto tip-toes); to high livel which includes jumps and leaps and the high overhead lifts.
Procedure:
After a lecture/demonstration during which the dance element space and its sub-element level are defined and discussed, the students engage in the following activities
#1: Form a large circle in the center of the room with all students......
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