Dancing Through School! - for Teachers and Parents

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What Teachers Say:

"The dances are simple to learn and instruct and very fun -- if you are looking for the one book to help you dance successfully and joyfully with your class, this is the one to get!"

Miriam Whiteley, Class 7 Teacher
Waldorf School of Orange County
Costa Mesa, CA

"Donna brings the personal and social joy of folk dancing to life with her teaching and her written instructions. Her book, with the accompanying CD, was enough for me to teach numerous dances to a class of fourth graders. Indeed, they learned the dances well enough to teach them to all their parents in an evening folk dance. What a joy it is to have these dances, these cultural jewels of movement, in our lives! For that I am forever grateful to Donna."

Rev Bowen, Class 5 teacher
Live Oak Waldorf School
Meadow Vista, CA

“Donna’s dances are such a gift to children. I have not seen a quicker and more effective way to bring children into harmony together and give them a fun experience of community than through Donna’s approach to folk dancing.”

Mark Rice, Director
SunRidge School
Sebastopol, Calif.

Links

HoffeckerBurgess Consulting

Alliance for Public Waldorf Schools Conference

About These Books

Dancing Through School! Volumes I and II are valuable resources for bringing folk dance into elementary school classrooms and home schools in way that is simple and fun for both teachers and students. Donna Burgess has developed an easy-to-follow method of introducing folk dance that is based on over twenty years of experience teaching dance to children.

Each book presents fifteen dances, some with alternate versions, suitable for children in grades three through seven. These dances have been carefully chosen for both their developmental appropriateness and their proven popularity with children. Donna's goal in this series of books is to encourage and empower teachers and parents, who may not have dance experience, to bring the many benefits of folk dance into their classroom, into their homes, and into their community life.

Dancing Through School! is the fruit of over twenty years of experience teaching folk dance to children. Donna has been a longtime faculty member at Live Oak Waldorf School and a guest instructor at Rudolf Steiner College and at many Waldorf Schools and Waldorf-inspired charter schools.

All the tools that a teacher needs are included in each book:

clear dance notations with a comprehensive glossary instructions that include a pattern in brief for the dance,cues for students, and detailed descriptions of each step complete musical scores for each dance pedagogical and cultural notes helpful tips for teachers on playing music, introducing new dances, partnering etiquette and more a beautiful companion CD with music for every dance in the book

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Volume I $34.95		Volume II $36.95

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