You Tube Clips for Dance Classes

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URL / Title / Length / Uses
/ Introduction to Bob Fosse / 5:40 / Used to Introduce Bob Fosse, his style and his choreography of musicals
/ Waka / 3:11 / Black Grace 2012 showing highlights from Waka
Could be used to inspire, create a group dance also for theory. UseLouis J. Steele and Charles F. Goldie. The Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand, 1898. Image, discuss journey across water and body shape showing hope and despair as seen in Image, use shapes for non locomotor moves and journey for locomotor moves.
/ Bob Fosse Michael Jackson Pas de Deux / 2:08 / I use it with Year 7/8 as a springboard for discussing
"Dancers are influenced by each other/time" (or not so much)
/ A Knight’s Tale Golden Years Dance - Awesome / 3:34 / For all you folk dance enthusiasts out there! From the movie "A Knight's Tale" - use this to talk about how dances change over time and as a lead in to creating their own based on contre dances.
/ Falling Angels (1989) by Jiri Kylian's "Black and White Ballets", The NederlandsDansTheater / 14:56 / I use Jiri Kylian's Fallen Angels as a lead in to 3.1. This dance shows a very abstract approach to exploring aspects of the human condition. Students find it very inspiring!!
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Attraction (Shadow Theatre Group) 1st Audition Britain's Got Talent

/ 6.46 / Exploring shapes and narrative dance
/ Passenger
Staring at the Stars / 1:56 / Duet – use of gestures – A good example of a repeated motif
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New Zealand Dance Company at Auckland Museum

/ 8:55 / Solo - Justin Haiu of the New Zealand Dance Company with this quirky and comical solo work 'Release Your Robot'. Choreographed by Justin Haiu.
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Ballet 101: The History of Ballet

/ 2:08 / A very quick illustrated history of the development of ballet
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Thought of You - by Ryan Woodward

/ 3:05 / Animated drawings of a duet
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KjerstiAlveberg. Nano ( Excerpt)

/ 5:07 / Great use of canon and unexpected staccato movement from 1.03 especially - kids love visual illusion effects
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Martha Graham Dance Company's 'Political Dance Project'

/ 8:49 / Explanation as to how dance can be used for political purposes
/ Martha Graham Lamentation / 3:18 / Used to discuss the history of modern dance
/ / 5:02 / Another quick history of ballet
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Ballet Evolved - The first four centuries

/ 6:59 / Baroque technique and how it developed. – The history of ballet
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Ballet Evolved - Fanny Elssler 1810-1884

/ 3:50 / Fanny Elssler and her contribution to the development of ballet
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WORLD ORDER "MACHINE CIVILIZATION"

/ 5:39 / World Order is a Japanese group. Great precision dancing in industrial and city settings. Students love this.
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WORLD ORDER "PERMANENT REVOLUTION"

/ 4.17 / World Order is a Japanese group. Great precision dancing as they discover “We are all one.”

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