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: " Move Your Feet"

• Album/Song: Trolls Soundtrack/"Move Your Feet, D.A.N.C.E., It's Sunshine Day" (T2D Cut)

• Video: See Below

• Prop: Hula Hoop

• Techniques: Step, Touch, Step-together-step-touch, Ball Change, Snap-Kick, Snap-Kick Ball Change

• CUE SHEET

 

STRETCH

STRETCH: “If you Can Dream”

• Album/Song: 

• Video: See Below

• CUE SHEET

 

ACROSS THE FLOOR

1. SKIPS & PASSE WALKS: "What Time is it?"

• Album/Song: Highschool Musical/What Time is It?

• Video: See Below

2. CHASSES (to the side): "I Get Around"

• Artist/Song: Beach Boys/"I Get Around"

• Video: See Below​

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RECITAL DANCE WORK

Run old routines.  Work on new routine choreogprahy.

 

FREE DANCE & HOLIDAY EXERCISES:

 “Freeze Dance” by Kiddie Palooza

• Album/Song: 100 Greatest Kids Songs/"Freeze Dance"

• Directions: Follow words in music

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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.