Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Second Day May 6

     From 9:15 to 10:15 I went to the dance studio to do some research on how to teach Horton dance technique. I found some videos on the Internet and wrote down  notes on the technique. I then started to write an outline  on the warm up for class that I taught today. It was important to be specific on what steps I was going to teach the class. 
    
     From 10:55 to 11:55 I went outside and wrote down step by step of the warm up and across the floor so that I could teach it in the afternoon. I have to say that it took  a while to write a forty five minute class on a piece a paper,however I accomplished my goal by noon.

    I took a break from dancing and then went to Drama class from 12:00 to 12:45.We worked on memorizing twenty lines of our play, as well as working with props for our scene. 

   From 3:15 to 5:00 then the real fun began!For the first part of the class we stretched and worked on our flexibility. Then we worked on the musical, today we learned how to a double cart wheel. After this I started to teach my class. This week I am teaching the group how to dance Lester Horton's modern dance technique. 
    
    

3 comments:

Michele Koenig said...

Yahoo. You are doing a great job with your daily journal entries.

Anonymous said...

What is the Horton dance technique?

Irene said...

Horton Dance Tecnique, is a modern dance technique that was created by Lester Horton. It is based of Native American dances and other movement influences. It had has a specific technique which uses flat backs, lateral streches, tilt lines and lunges. All of the movements can be found in jazz.