The Dance Fever is Heating Up

At first students in the Break It Down Winterim had to learn from each other. They created dances based on their limited understanding of movement.   However over the past few days they have learned legitimate moves and techniques from some highly qualified professional dancers.

The Copoeira is form of dance which combines Brazilian marital arts with dance moves.  They were instructed in this style late last week.  Check out this video of one of their teachers.

This week the focus has been on hip hop and break dancing.  When asked about learning this, one student commented that the teacher is very good.  He knows what he is doing and he has really helped the group gain some specific skills for this type of dance style.

A final dance performance will happen at 1:00 pm, Friday (3/14) in the Black Box Theater. 

1...2...3...Step, Turn, Kick, Step...

It's Dance Fever in the dance studio at Lawrence Academy.

On Monday the group created a group dance which is posted on the LA Winterim YouTube Channel. On Tuesday they tried to copy these favorite music videos:

• YMCA
• Napoleon Dynamite Dance
• Hello Good Morning Remix
• Little Ms. Sunshine Dance

They are also choreographing small group dances for a quick performance on Wednesday (3/5) at 2pm. This performance is to represent what they know before any professional teachers come in to work with them. Their teachers arrive later this week. They will be taught the Capoeira dance, Hip Hop and Break Dancing.

 

Check out the Break It Down Performance #1 LIVE at 2:00 p.m. on YouTube. (Update: The performance was judged by Mrs. Margraf, Mr. David Smith, and Mrs. Poulin.  The current recording is unavailable due to a bad sound recording. Check out two videos of their group dance on the Winterim 2014 YouTube Playlist.)