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K-12th
Instructor
/ Contact: Nuria Llovet
This
class offers a full ballet program for all levels from
beginning to advanced pointe in Russian classical ballet
technique.
Students
learn the joy of dance while progressing to each new
level of technique in a carefully planned program that
emphasizes individual growth and development. |
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| Students
have the opportunity to express themselves creatively as they
participate in dance choreography and theatrical performance.
Students learn poise and self-confidence as an important outcome
in all aspects of ballet technique.
All students
are invited to perform in the spring recital showcase held
each academic year. |
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| Goals:
What will the student he able to do at the end of the course?
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Students develop body awareness; movement, communication skills;
and a capacity for movement response, motor efficiency, and
multisensoiy integration.
2. Students
use choreographic principles and processes to express perceptions,
feelings, images, and thoughts.
3. Students
create and communicate meaning through dance composition and
performance.
4. Student
gain poise and self-confidence to perform in front of audiences. |
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Objectives: What will the student accomplish at each
step to reach the goal? |
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Students demonstrate spatial concepts through movement such
as personal and general spaces; shapes at different levels;
shapes of different sizes; and curved and straight pathways.
2. Students
will use dance steps and techniques learned during year to
perform dances for the winter and spring recitals. Instructor
gives the students the story and the music for a production.
Students learn to organize improvisational ideas into the
choreography of dances that demonstrate clarity of intent,
unity, originality, and coherent form. |
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Students create dances based on different themes and
discuss the relationship of expressive movement, motifs,
phrases, and dance compositions to meaning. Students
learn that through the medium of the performing arts
they are able to express what cannot be expressed in
words.
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Students will gain hands-on experience in all aspects
of theater performance including stage presence, costume,
lighting, and character development. |
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| Strategies/Methods:
The instructor
employs a diversity of strategies and methods including:
- teaching
methods support the psychology of dance instruction
- nurturing
the individual with the knowledge that each child learns
and develops differently
- each
level of technique is introduce slowly to protect the body
from physical injuries
- expressing
enthusiasm for dance while teaching poise and self-confidence
- teaching
self-discipline and respect which will cariy into life skills-reinforces
the importance of giving one's best for the audience and
showing appreciation to parents for the opportunity to learn
- students
learn community giving by performing for elderly & community
groups.
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| Evaluation
Method:
Evaluation
will be by teacher observation and instruction, rehearsals,
discussion self-evaluation, comments, critiques, and
reviews. |
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| Instructor
Qualifications:
Ms.
Nuria D. Llovet earned a degree in dance from the
Boston Conservatoiy of Music and is accredited through
the Institute of Theater of Barcelona. She holds a lifetime
teaching credential through college level from the State
of California Ms. Llovet is also a certified Flamenco
dance teacher. She owned and directed Palos Verdes Academy
of Dance and the Mendocino Dance Academy. |
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Ms.
Llovet has taught and choreographed musicals for high school
levels for many years and taught at College of the Redwoods.
She toured and performed in Europe as a soloist and performed
at the Barcelona Opera House at the age of 16.
Having
taught dance for 30 years, Ms. Llovet currently owns and is
the director and choreographer of Nuria's Dance Academy. |
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