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Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.

In one of four groups: historians, researchers, illustrators and tutors, students research and teach a fouette.

Students recreate the staged fight between Abigail and Sammy with particular attention to body language.

Guided improvisation on small shifts of the body that constitute “falling”.

Students attempt to expand their solo ideas through improvisation techniques.

Students describe footwear for dance, history of the point shoe and experience a range of feet and calf strengthening exercises, keeping a record.

Students warm up and learn a dance from the Dance Academy website tutorials.

Students create a list of full time dance schools, discuss audition processes, contexts and variations re genre. Design an audition.

Students learn about range of motion in the foot and ankle and explore personal range of motion.

Students learn some of the basic skills needed for successful turns.

Students review a variety of turns and construct a visual collage of turns.

Students try a few rock’n’roll moves and create a photo wall of fame.

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