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Free Dance Teaching Tips

please enjoy some of my favorite ideas
for your dance studio

Teaching arabesque for the intermediate/advanced dancer.

Tip #2

2 beautiful ballet songs. Are you always searching for that perfect recital song. The right length, appropriate for your students? These 2 songs are considered new age, they were beautiful for classical ballet moves. I used them for high school ballet and the students loved them. Available on Itunes.

Piano Fantasy by William Joseph
Within by William Joseph

Tip #3

Fun with Ballet Terminology. I like to help my students enjoy learning terminology. With a little effort you can make words and language fun. With Ballet Terminology Wallpaper in your studio you will give them a head start by seeing the words visually that you are using.

Show the students how similar the languages are, and how easy it is to relate these new strange words to words they already know.

For example: Sur le cou de pied (on the neck of the foot) I tell them how the term “pied” is from the same root that gives us ped. See how many ped (foot) related English words they can think of: pedal, pedestrian, pedicure.

I always make sure my students can see the terms “a terre and en l’air” when I am teaching them. In “en l”air the air is right there in the term for them to see. In “a terre” I relate it to the Latin phrase “terra firma” meaning earth or land. This is a phrase they may be learning in science. You could bring in a clay pot and explain to them it is called “terra-cotta” - earth baked. You could also relate the words terrain, terrarium, or terrestrial.

When my kids are ready for Pas de Poisson, I usually go crazy and sing a little bit of Les Poissons from The Little Mermaid.

There are so many words that I point out on the wallpaper and it helps make sense to them, just because the French is one or two letters different from the English. Chat = Cat, Croix = Cross, Ronde = Round, Tour = Turn Language and words are fun.

Have fun teaching ballet terminology!