Dance Skills Workshop

A structured workshop providing opportunities for children in Key Stage One and Two to explore dance, movement and creativity in a fun two hour session.

Workshop Leader

Zara Phillips BA (Hons) Dance Practise and Performance and Music. AlCM.

Trained in Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz, Break dance, Freestyle and Hip Hop.
Taught at various Primary and Secondary schools as well as for youth dance companies, summer camps and the Midlands Arts Centre.
Choreographer for a comedy caberet show.
Performance has included Musical Theatre, Contemporary dance with Pasgetti Dance Company, Evolve Dance Company and Made by Katie Green. Other performance includes Pantomime, Concerts, Catwalks, Festivals, Drama and Comedy.
Member of Equity.

Benefits for children

As well as enhancing memory, creativity, concentration and physical fitness, Dance provides opportunities for the children to develope:

spiritually through confidence building exercises and performances.
morally by peer assessment.
socially through team building, creative exercises.
culturally through learning new skills and being made aware of further areas of dance for exploration.

Benefits for teachers

Prepared follow up notes.
Physical exercise to compliment the curriculum classes.
You can join in the fun too.

What will happen

The first half of the workshop:

The children will see a live 5 minute dance performance from Zara, incorporating Contemporary and Street dance styles.
The class will then be taken through a dance warm up to music and a series of movement games which start the blood flowing around the body and wake the active mind.
Specific exercises are then practised to build strength, balance and co-ordination and to prepare the body for the choreography to follow. These are known as centre work.
Travelling exercises will be practised from one side of the room to the other. These include kicks, walks, leaps, jumps, skips and turns.
The class will then co-operate to decide on a dance 'crew' or 'company' name and each design a sticky label with this company name. They will all wear the stickers for the next part of the session.
A short 'routine' will then be taught, practised and performed to music, in their new 'crew'.

The second half of the workshop:

Games and tasks are carried out to develope their own material. Using pictures of sports personal and prompt cards to help explain, the children will explore:

Freeze frames.
Dynamic and Rhythmic movement.
Individual creativity and group/unison work.

The chance to perform their work and give peer assessment will then take place.

In the final ten minutes, the class will follow a simple cool down and stretch and a discussion will be held about what they have learnt.

What I will bring

Pat tested sound equipment.
Music.
Pictures, sticky name labels and prompt cards.

Safe Practise and Code of Conduct

Full CRB checked.
Ten million pound public liability insurance.
Good code of conduct and child protection policy.
Risk Assessment.

Cost

An entire class can participate in a two hour workshop.
The cost for one workshop booked either in the morning or the afternoon is £150 plus travel (25p per mile round trip from WV6 7NH).
Two workshops can be done in one day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon with a discount rate of £250 total.

May offer:

If you book before 31 May 2012 you receive a 10% discount off your total booking fee. You can book up to one year in advance.