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Book Synopsis
Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented in a skill progression, from beginner to advanced, can be applied to a variety of dance forms. The book offers a plethora of tools to help dance educators in providing expert partnering instruction:
  • 18 illustrated exercises that teach techniques, mechanics, and individual partnered skills; each exercise includes additional variations and explorations
  • Tips for developing a partnering component and integrating it into an existing dance program or curriculum
  • Related online materials delivered via HKPropel, including video clips demonstrating partnering exercises, vocabulary, questions for discussion and reflection, and assessments and rubrics to help assess student progress

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Dance Partnering

Chapter 2. Time: Getting Started
Exercise 1: Grasp and Clasp
Exercise 2: Trust Building
Exercise 3: Active and Passive
Exercise 4: Weight Sharing
Exercise 5: Counterbalance
Exercise 6: Shelves and Ledges

Chapter 3. Weight: Digging Deeper
Exercise 7: Draping
Exercise 8: Airplanes
Exercise 9: Redirection and Leverage
Exercise 10: Under, Over, and Through
Exercise 11: Falling and Rocking
Exercise 12: Assisted Inversions

Chapter 4. Energy and Flow: Activating Creativity
Exercise 13: Hip Rides
Exercise 14: Promenade
Exercise 15: Traditional Lifts
Exercise 16: Initiation and Suggestion
Exercise17: Rolling Points
Exercise 18: Me Score

Chapter 5. Space: Fostering Community and Inclusive Pedagogy

Dance Partnering Basics

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A Paperback / softback by Brandon Whited

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    Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
    Publication Date: 05/02/2024
    ISBN13: 9781492598060, 978-1492598060
    ISBN10: 1492598062
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    Ballet Ballroom dancing

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented in a skill progression, from beginner to advanced, can be applied to a variety of dance forms. The book offers a plethora of tools to help dance educators in providing expert partnering instruction:
    • 18 illustrated exercises that teach techniques, mechanics, and individual partnered skills; each exercise includes additional variations and explorations
    • Tips for developing a partnering component and integrating it into an existing dance program or curriculum
    • Related online materials delivered via HKPropel, including video clips demonstrating partnering exercises, vocabulary, questions for discussion and reflection, and assessments and rubrics to help assess student progress

    Inc

    Table of Contents
    Chapter 1. Introduction to Dance Partnering

    Chapter 2. Time: Getting Started
    Exercise 1: Grasp and Clasp
    Exercise 2: Trust Building
    Exercise 3: Active and Passive
    Exercise 4: Weight Sharing
    Exercise 5: Counterbalance
    Exercise 6: Shelves and Ledges

    Chapter 3. Weight: Digging Deeper
    Exercise 7: Draping
    Exercise 8: Airplanes
    Exercise 9: Redirection and Leverage
    Exercise 10: Under, Over, and Through
    Exercise 11: Falling and Rocking
    Exercise 12: Assisted Inversions

    Chapter 4. Energy and Flow: Activating Creativity
    Exercise 13: Hip Rides
    Exercise 14: Promenade
    Exercise 15: Traditional Lifts
    Exercise 16: Initiation and Suggestion
    Exercise17: Rolling Points
    Exercise 18: Me Score

    Chapter 5. Space: Fostering Community and Inclusive Pedagogy

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