Our Framework
“Dance’s main content comes from dance’s foundation disciplines: dance performance, choreography, dance history, and criticism. They comprise the cornerstones for the dance curriculum. They also generate the four artistic processes which are at the center of the dance curriculum. Curricular balance is achieved by teaching the main concepts of each artistic process.”
– Brenda Pugh McCutchen
Cornerstones of Dance
Each cornerstone of a holistic dance curriculum is explained in depth in the textbook, Teaching Dance as Art in Education. The four cornerstones correspond with the four artistic processes in the National Core Arts Standards in Dance:
- Dancing and Performing Perform
- Creating and Composing Create
- Knowing History, Culture, Context Connect
- Analyzing and Critiquing Respond
Teaching Toolkits
Each cornerstone has a corresponding toolkit containing the substance and spark to generate high impact learning. As students absorb dance’s key concepts they transform into incredibly knowledgeable and skillful dancers right before your eyes! Each toolkit aligns with national standards and the four cornerstones. They exemplify all six defining characteristics of a holistic 6DC model.
“The hands-on nature of the words/processes/structures in the toolkit helped reviewers to connect dance education experiences across disciplines and life.” – NDEO review
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More Tools For The Teacher
Magnify content formation, retention, and transfer with other resources in our store :
- Posters that display and reinforce dance concepts
- Choreographic Idea Books to inspire choreography
- Creative Dance Resources
- Dance Magnets
- Anatomy construction sets such as Build Your Own Body magnetic skeletal system
- Required charts like The Dance Elements and Whole Body Integration
- A Dance History book for middle and high school
Support Services
Access our free product tips and videos online, anytime. Gain the confidence needed to excel in teaching dance’s artistic processes through applying our framework and resources. Consider booking a teacher institute. Contact us for upcoming one-week intensive institutes. Access our curriculum consulting services for higher education to ensure strong degree programs.
