Country Dance and Song Society English Dance Teachers Week at Pinewoods August 22 - 29, 1998

English Dance Teachers Week at Pinewoods August 22 - 29, 1998 Program Director: Bruce Hamilton
Tentative Schedule: [Back to Top]
9:00 - 10:15
English Dance Teachers Course	Bruce Hamilton
10:30 - 11:45
Advanced English Country 1	Sue Salmons
Beg/Int English Country	Brad Foster
11:50 - 12:30
Singing	John Roberts
1:45 - 2:15
Presentation
2:30 - 3:30
English Dance Teachers Course	Bruce Hamilton
3:35 - 4:10
Tea Time
4:15 - 5:15
"Through the Ceiling"	Bruce Hamilton
Molly Dancing	Sue Dupré
Beginning English Clog	Harry Cowgill
8:00
"For Those Who Know"
8:15
Evening Dance Party

Program Description: [Back to Top]
This is an intensive course for English dance leaders who wish to develop or improve their teaching and dancing skills. The program will include an understanding of the caller's role as well as a demanding, detailed look at your own dancing. You should have some experience at calling. In the course of the day, there will be a great deal of practice in calling, with detailed and constructive feedback; practice working with musicians; exposure to the wonderful breadth of the English country dance repertoire; training in a method for giving nonthreatening, constructive feedback (you can teach this to your dancers at home!); instruction in effective use of a microphone; constructive feedback on the way you use your voice; and discussion of programming, including what distinguishes a good program from a bad one. You will learn how to teach dance style, how to teach simple dances very briefly and complex dances simply and efficiently. You will also learn how to teach the rant and hornpipe steps.

Bruce Hamilton has designed this program (held concurrently with English Dance Week at Pinewoods) and is the principal teacher. He has been an English and Scottish country dancer for over 30 years, and teacher for over 25. He has taught numerous calling workshops, including intensive sessions at weekends as well as weekly classes. He is an extremely gifted teacher of teachers, able to look beyond the obvious, and has spent a great deal of his own efforts over the last fifteen years in the development of teaching methods and curriculum for the training of teachers.

This course includes three special classes plus a fourth class and the extra-curricular activities offered by English Dance Week at Pinewoods. There will be two (one morning, one afternoon) classes with Bruce Hamilton concentrating on the role of the caller. Sue Salmons's experienced and Brad Foster's beginning/intermediate country dance classes are also part of the program. Each will have a focus on movement and style; choose the class level appropriate for your skill. During the last period of the day, participants are free to choose among any of the classes offered. Please check the description of English Dance Week at Pinewoods for details on the program and staff.

Registration: [Back to Top]
This course is limited to ten participants to ensure plenty of opportunity for active participation. Scholarships are available; please check the appropriate box on the Registration Form.

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