Teaching Assistants Lyrical Warmups for kids (already posted, but on a different board) en>fr fr>en
By Danzin_fool Comments: 236, member since Tue Nov 29, 2005On Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:26 AM
Hey everybody,
I've already posted about this on the lyrical board and haven't been getting much in the line of a response, so then I thought of this board which is probably better suited for my question 
Anyway, I am an assistant teacher who will be teaching my own classes starting in September. One of the classes I will be teaching is a 7+ lyrical class. I never took lyrical when I was young, so i'm not really sure what kinds of things I could do to make the class more appropriate for that age level. Does anybody have any suggestions for things that they do in thier lyrical class with the kids, or did in class when they were younger? Any ideas would be great, I mean things like in the warmup, across the floor etc.
Thanks a lot!
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By weedlewub  Comments: 340, member since Wed Jun 28, 2006On Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:32 AM
The warmups and across the floor combos in my lyrical classes are pretty much the same as in my ballet classes - for technique's sake. The music I play is different though - I tend to use lyrical music in lueu of the normal ballet CDs.
The combinations done in the center are where I try to focus on the difference in performance quality. |
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By slamdance Comments: 254, member since Tue Jul 06, 2004On Tue Jun 12, 2007 05:10 PM
Where are these "boards" that everyone is talking about?? All I see are the "music" "ask a teacher" "general" "costume" (etc.) options. |
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By danceland2  Comments: 2405, member since Mon Nov 14, 2005On Tue Jun 12, 2007 08:35 PM
My lyrical classes for the younger ages have a basic jazz warm up. Across the floor I do some of the same things I do in ballet & jazz. I always have a combo in the center where we work on a move lyrical movement quality. |
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By BackFlic Comments: 91, member since Fri Dec 22, 2006On Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:09 AM
jenelenw wrote:
Where are these "boards" that everyone is talking about?? All I see are the "music" "ask a teacher" "general" "costume" (etc.) options.
At the top in blue there are different tabs. Click dancers and a whole new world will be unveiled  |
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By DancinCat Comments: 572, member since Sat Mar 16, 2002On Wed Jul 04, 2007 01:18 PM
I try to incorporate ballet and jazz together for my warm up. Plies in parallel and turned out, etc. I also do a lot of torso warm ups. Such as incorporating contractions and reaches with arms. |
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By dancinaway123 Comments: 52, member since Sat Jun 23, 2007On Thu Jul 05, 2007 02:23 AM
I always do a combination (30ish seconds then add on) during my lyrical classes. If they are getting the technique from their jazz/ballet classes, I like to give them the practice that they need in 1)learning to pick up and perform (for their mom's ) quickly 2)expression their emotions 3)changing up the style of lyrical each week since it has so many different directions now and they need to be able to dance all of them |
