The Great Canadian Square Dance
Teachers and students come together with intermingling patterns, rhythmic movements and cooperating attitudes to the powerful recorded music of Calvin Vollrath. Face the challenges and let yourself make all the necessary mistakes in order to accelerate your learning and experience a cultural phenomenon which will stand the test of time. Following the workshop is a discussion regarding attitudes, teamwork, leadership and coach-ability.
Syllabus:
- Bow to your partners
- Circle left, circle right
- Do si do, swing left, swing right
- Grand Chain
- Forward and back
- Alemande left
- Heads and sides forward and back
- Star family
- Promenade
- Figure 8
- Dip and Dive
- Open the circle and end
Debrief Issues:
- Team work
- Attitude
- Comfort Zone
- Learning from mistakes
- Social circles
The teaching was really well organized and simple enough that the students were able to catch on quickly. The dances looked really great!
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The chilren enjoyed the dance. It was great how it all came together. The children loved performing throughly enjoyed your performance.
Merci beaucoup! Thank you so much for coming to our school and teaching us to square dance, play the spoons, make dancing men and teaching us some French! We loved every second of it!!! The Cabane a Sucre was a S-W-E-E-T touch!!! We WISH that you could come back on MONDAY!
The Grade Threes in Room 1 Battalion Park School(with a little help from their teacher!)