Career-long professional learning

You don't need prior dance experience to get the most from these sessions.

Working from the premise that we all love to boogie but very few of us enjoy anyone watching, Dawn leads sessions, ensuring everyone is comfortable and supported at their level without any pressure to 'show the others’.  

​Sample courses

Dance for Performance 

5 sessions
Dawn has extensive experience in supporting pupils and teachers to create choreography for short performances. Over 5 sessions, we will cover:

•    Practical dance warm up and cool downs
•    Creating an effective and fun rehearsal plan
•    Tips for ensuring the choreography is inclusive and fully engages everyone
•    Creative tasks to generate relevant and theme appropriate moves
•    Peer to peer critical feedback and rehearsal direction
•    Considering props, lighting, sound and costumes
•    Aligning the performance preparation to outcomes 
•    Dance lesson plan creation for year on year delivery 

Introduction to Dance for Performance

2 sessions
Dawn has extensive experience in supporting pupils and teachers to create choreography for short performances. These sessions will cover:
•    Introduction to choreography
•    Practical dance warm up and cool downs
•    Creating an effective and fun rehearsal plan
•    Tips for ensuring the choreography is inclusive and fully engages everyone

 

Developing Dance Lessons across school 

3 sessions
Dawn Hartley has extensive experience in designing and delivering dance lessons in schools.

She is passionate about sharing skills with Teachers to give everyone the tools and confidence to deliver dance. Through analysing basic movement and introducing a range of new skills, Teachers will gain skills in designing subject linked relevant lessons and gain confidence to deliver fun and engaging Dance sessions. 
Over 3 sessions, we will cover:
•    Practical dance warm up and cool downs
•    Creative and active tasks to generate relevant and theme appropriate moves
•    Peer to peer critical feedback 
•    Working with external stimuli (poetry, props, art work etc)
•    Dance lesson plan creation for year on year delivery 

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