The Lloyd Shaw Foundation is dedicated to the preservation, restoration and teaching of the folk dances of America.
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Educational Kits
The Lloyd Shaw Foundation has published two major kits for use in schools and the community. These kits meet the standards for dance in educational settings. They contain music and full directions for teachers and leaders. You would be inclined towards the elementary and/or secondary kits when:
- You are not familiar or skilled at teaching traditional dance, and need some help.
- You need to justify your curriculum according to metrics which the county or state mandates regarding dance and physical education.
- You aren't sure how to judge the difficulty of the dances, as it relates to your students, and you want material that has been selected and tested with the specific age group.
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LET'S DANCE!
Dances for Children from America's Melting Pot A Dance Program for Pre-School and Elementary School Children * 210 pages * Instructions and music for 79 dances. This kit is available as a download in electronic format. The text is in .pdf format and the tunes in .mp3 format. The price in $30 for the whole kit (297 Mb).
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PROGRAM FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION
The new kit, handsomely packaged in an 8 ½ x 11 looseleaf binder, contains four CD’s of music – 74 tunes for square dances, quadrilles, folk dances, mixers, couple dances and contras, almost all cued or with cue bands. Also included is a manual of over 140 pages of detailed instructions and cues for 13 square dances and quadrilles, 18 round dances and mixers, 18 contras and 17 international folk dances; a complete glossary, dance history and teaching aids. The chapters include: Introduction; You - the Leader; Communicating; Tips on Teaching and a Word on Styling; Prompting and Cuing and Diagramming a Dance; Your Sound System; Using the Video Tape; Performance Objectives and Building the Units; Dance in the Subject Matter Curriculum; Dance in the Music Curriculum; Community Dance; Squares and Quadrilles; Couples, Mixer and Specialty Dances; Contra Dances and International Folk Dances. A video tape with over 50 clips showing individual movements and full dances is included.
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