Arts-Focused Schools
Book: DRAGONFLY DIAMANTES–Stanzas to Abstract for Choreography
$45.00
Dragonfly diamantes are creative catalysts that feed the imagination. The nine-word stanzas are fun to read but their purpose is to inspire new creations around unlikely topics. These are little diamonds in the rough to polish and shape into gems. Eighty-seven “topics with a twist” spark unique compositions in all the arts–especially dance, visual arts, creative dramatics, and music. Explore, improvise, and compose to your heart’s content and always have a creative idea at your fingertips. Book opens flat for ease of use.
Book: CHOREOGRAPHIC IMPULSES to Explore, Improvise and Abstract
$75.00
The book of haiku-like stanzas contains creative prompts about topics that appeal to advanced high school and university dancers. Topics are far-ranging and stimulating resulting in stellar dances limited only by time and imagination. Serves dance and other arts disciplines.
DANCER magnet
$16.50
This fun, movable magnet helps instruct your students regarding proper posture, dance position, stage direction and more. The 12-inch DANCER magnet easily repositions into intriguing shapes and images with the touch of a finger. Magnet designed by Rami Geller.
Beginning-Middle-Ending
$25.00
The concept of B-M-E is the basic framework for all dance compositions from the most basic to the most difficult. Teach B-M-E as dance’s main organizational framework for improvisation, composition and choreography. (Two-sided poster with teaching prompts on the back.)
THE UBIQUITOUS BEGINNING-MIDDLE-ENDING
$19.00
Merge information with inspiration. Take the opportunity to emphasize the super-structure that governs the development of the whole and its parts in dance as all the arts. To put Beginning-Middle-Ending (BME) in this broad context underscores its universal importance. For MS, HS, adults.
The Body Is… Poster
$19.00
Dancers know the body is our instrument of expression. Here is a thoughtful, visual reminder that quietly calls attention to the many roles our body plays in and out of the studio.
PHRASE
$29.50
A “Phrase” is a complete movement statement with a beginning-middle-ending. Give dance’s “smallest organizational unit” the emphasis it deserves. Use this two-sided poster to experience phrasing as essential to effective choreographing as well as to performance clarity.
Take a Moment to Dance
$19.00
Want a catchy image full of motion to grab attention as people walk into the studio? Let this “splashy” poster do just that!
Ombrello, THE CHOREOGRAPHER
$16.50
“Hey! Look at me! I’m “Ombrello, THE CHOREOGRAPHER!” I’m the choreography idea guy at your service ready to move and re-shape with the touch of your fingertip. Let’s create umbrella dances on all the metal surfaces we can find. Let’s get going. Oh? You want to see my creative credentials? Then, click Read More to see my video clip.
THE TOP HAT AND CANE DANCER
$16.50
What a dapper dude with top hat and cane and dressed fit to kill, ready to go toe tapping at the Ritz. Liven up your classroom with this dapper dancer to oversee the teaching of soft shoe routines and tap dance or for whatever other reason crosses you mind. A mesmerizing moveable puppet magnet is addicting in the classroom. Add a new dimension to your teaching with this happy hoofer for this school year.
THE DANCE TRIO (Dancer, Choreographer, & Degas Dancer)
$46.50
If there is anything better than having one dancing puppet magnet, it’s having three. Move them purposely to choreograph. Move them instinctually to improvise. Create unique shapes, moves, and transitions to enjoy them fully. In the case of having a “trio of figures” instead of one, less is not more. Three is “more.” (Considering that the trio saves $3 off the solo purchase price, “more also costs less.”)