ENTRANCE: “Canon”

The Instructor will turn on the intro music (“Canon”).  When the music begins, the dancers will enter in a line form the door, walk to a circle in the middle of the room on demi-pointe, holding their bear in 1st position.  The dancers should then sit on their bottoms in the “Butterfly “position with long tall backs.

 

TWINKLE BEAR GOES TO BALLET CLASS:

Month's Exercise:​ CUE SHEET

• Releve

• Tip Toe

• Notes: After this exercise, have your dancers place their bears against the mirror to be their audience for the rest of class!  Dancers should form a line facing the mirrors.

 

GENERAL POSITIONING

1. WARM-UP/FOOT POSITIONS: “Get Back Up Again”

• Album/Song: Trolls Soundtrack/Get Back Up Again (TDP Cut)

• Video: The Dance Professionals Website

• CUE SHEET

2. LEFT FOOT/RIGHT FOOT: "Left Foot - Right Foot"

• Artist/Song: Kimbo Children’s Music/”Left Foot – Right Foot” (TDP Cut)

• Video: The Dance Professionals Website

• CUE SHEET

3. JAZZ ARM POSITIONS: “Tigger Bop"

• Album/Song: 

• Video: See Below

• CUE SHEET

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STEPS & TECHNIQUES

MOVEMENT EXERCISE: "DJ Shuffle"

• Album/Artist/Song: Disney Junior DJ Shuffle/"DJ Shuffle (T2D Cut)/Parry Gripp

• Video: See Below

• Techniques: Step Vines (Right, Left, Front, Back)

• CUE SHEET

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STRETCH

STRETCH: “If you Can Dream”

• Album/Song: 

• Video: See Below

• CUE SHEET

 

ACROSS THE FLOOR

1. SKIPS & PASSE WALKS: "L-O-V-E"

• Artist/Song: Nat King Cole/"L-O-V-E"

• Video: See Below

2. CHASSES (to the side): "Stuck with You"

• Artist/Song: Huey Lewis & the News/"Stuck with You"

• Video: See Below

 

RECITAL DANCE WORK

Run old routines.  Work on new routine choreogprahy.

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FREE DANCE & HOLIDAY EXERCISE:

“Trolls Freeze Dance Medley”

• Album/Song: Trolls Motion Picture Soundtrack/Various Songs (TDP Cut)

• Directions: The medley is broken into sections of various music.  The teacher should give the dancers cues (dance high, dance low, move around the room, etc.) to help them learn how to do beginning improvisational dancing.  When each dance segment ends, the dancers pose and wait for the next section to start.  The last dance is “True Colors.”  For this routine, dancers may grab ribbons rings/sticks to dance with.  All the dancers should pose at the end of the medley.

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CLASS CLOSING/REVERENCE:

Reverence: “Be Somebody”

• Album/Song: “Leap” Soundtrack/”Be Somebody”

• Video: The Dance Professionals Website

• Props: Poms & Hula Hoop

Set-Up: Lay down two rows of pom poms to leap over and one hula hoop at the end.

Directions:  You will have the dancers sit against the mirrors.  One at a time, you will touch a student with your “magic” wand.  They will leap over the rows of pom poms, then, standing in the hula hoop will do a curtsy (girls) or bow (boys).  Everyone will clap for them.  Then they will take their place against a different wall while the rest of the class gets a turn.  After everyone has done their bow and are sitting against the wall, the teacher will give each dancer a little bit of magical sparkle dust.