| 240 | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
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| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM | Convention Center:Ballroom AC |
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| Dancing for Busy People |
| Quick to learn, easily taught dances are fun for the participants and the teacher. A variety of formations will be taught, including: big circles, squares of four pairs, trios, facing lines of dancers, Sicilian Circles, solo, etc. Music will include reels, marches, pop, waltz, etc. Dancers will learn to hear, understand and quickly respond to directional commands for dance patterns that involve more than one dancer and in coordination with one another. Dancers will learn to move in linear and curved pathways, with a limited set of 7-10 basic commands (movements) that are recognized world wide in the square, round and traditional dance community. Most of the dances do not require gender specific partners. How to adapt these dances to different classroom situations will be discussed. Presenter Calvin Campbell has been teaching dance for 50 years. He is a charter member of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation and editor of the Community Dance Journal, published by CALLERLAB, and is co-author of Dancing for Busy People. |
Keyword(s): dance education, performance, recreation programming
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| Presider: Yona B. Chock, Aardvark Adventures, 'Ewa, HI |
| Speaker: Calvin Campbell, CALLERLAB, Castle Rock, CO |