Avoiding Injury
Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.
Teaching Activities
Bare Feet
Students discuss the kinds of occupations that focus on feet. They create a script, written/spoken from the foot’s point of view as it spends a day dancing in pointe shoes.
Pointe Shoes
Students describe footwear for dance, history of the point shoe and experience a range of feet and calf strengthening exercises, keeping a record.