Middle School
Dance Elements Posters, Set 1
$225.00
The elements of dance are essential to literacy in all aspects of dance (as a dancer, choreographer, critic, and historian). Each poster details the elements related to: 1) Body, 2) Space, 3) Time, 4) Energy, and 5) Relationship (BSTER). Content aligns with the “Elements of Dance” chart in Teaching Dance as Art in Education. Set 1 includes five super sized 24″ x 36″ color wall charts appropriate for K-12.
TOOLKIT 1: VIEWING DANCE–Vocabularies for Critiquing
(Basic level) $159.00
This kit focuses on responding to dance so viewers gain tangible, analytical skills at upper elementary and middle school. Four-Step Critique and Principles of Design posters lead users toward articulate reflection and analysis (and away from vague responses of the past). Viewer cards such as Decoding Dance Works and Critiquing Strips, guide viewing to ensure users don’t miss the elusive aspects of dance. Used over time, these resources drastically change the way viewers see dance. A useful Ideabook for teachers (pictured) offers insight on how to maximize outcomes.
TOOLKIT 1: VIEWING DANCE – Vocabularies for Critiquing
(Advanced level) $179.00
The advanced version of this toolkit is geared to upper middle school and all high school students. Four-Step Critique and Principles of Design posters lead users toward articulate reflection and analysis (and away from vague responses of the past). Viewer cards such as Decoding Dance Works and Critiquing Strips, guide viewing to ensure users don’t miss the elusive aspects of dance. Advanced level contains more resources than the basic level. Used over time, this mix of resources drastically changes the way users see dance. The Ideabook for teachers (pictured) helps to maximize learning outcomes.
“More Decoding Dance Works” Card Set 3
$29.00
This set contains 45 scanning cards with 90 new comments for all levels. They enable users to articulate more details about a choreography. they increase dance literacy and develop vocabulary by sparking more comments about what is noticed in a dance work. (This set is also part of the Ultimate Toolkit 1 but here it is sold separately.)
TOOLKIT 2: CREATING DANCE – Processes for Choreographing
(Basic level) $199.00
Demystify the choreographic process for elementary students through adults. Easy-to-use posters explain the choreographic processes as well as the choreographic devices, untangling them so users are ready to run with them. Detailed charts on choreographic structures detail the fundamental aspects of composing and organizing movement into a dance. A book of 60+ stanzas for choreography and 52 double-sided improvisation cards inspire a multitude of dances on diverse topics. The teacher’s Ideabook offers suggested ways to maximize composition.
TOOLKIT 2: CREATING DANCE–Processes for Choreographing
(Advanced level) $209.00
The advanced version of toolkit 2 works well for experienced middle school and high school students. Easy-to-use posters untangle the 8 choreographic processes from the 12 choreographic devices so users are ready to run with them. Detailed charts on choreographic structures clarify organization of movement and composing. Inspire a multitude of dance works on diverse topics with 60+ stanzas created to choreograph and 52 double-sided composition cards. The teacher’s Ideabook (pictured) offers ways to increase learning outcomes.
Basic Toolkit Bundle
$379.00
This bundle includes three useful items: the basic level versions of Toolkits 1 & Toolkit 2, plus Set 3 of Decoding Dance Works cards. Teacher Ideabooks found in each toolkit offer practical as well as creative guidance.
Advanced Toolkit Bundle
$435.00
This bundle is geared to high school and advanced middle school. It includes three items: the advanced versions of Toolkits 1 & Toolkit 2, and a stanza book of choreography prompts titled Dragonfly Diamantes –Stanzas to Abstract for Choreography (described elsewhere on this site).
The Original Dance Elements Daisy Set (2015)
$255.00
The Dance Elements Daisy–featuring a 36 x 42 banner–is designed to facilitate creative dance in grades 1 to 7. 100 interchangeable dance elements cards fit into the clear vinyl pockets of the daisy (invisible here) to facilitate exploration, instill the elements, clarify intent, and organize dance-making activities. 20 intent circles (center) mix and match with 80 exploration petals (samples below) to offer hundreds of creative dance lessons in one simple-to-use product. Packaged with a manual to maximize effective use. Designed by Brenda Pugh McCutchen.
Essential Questions Set 1 (Responding posters for all ages)
$89.00
This set of essential questions posters focuses on analysis, elements of dance, and emphasis in viewing dance. The set includes six 13″ x 19″ full-color posters and is appropriate for all ages and ability levels (elementary, middle, high school, higher education, adult learners, and professional applications). This is the set to start with. Printed on sturdy semi-gloss card stock.
Essential Questions Set 2 (Responding posters for intermediates)
$89.00
The second set of essential questions adds to the conversation. This set of intermediate level posters focuses on analysis at a deeper level, artistic design, and impact. The set includes six 13″ x 19″ full-color posters. This set is appropriate to add for middle school, high school, higher education and adult learners. Printed on sturdy semi-gloss card stock.
BUILD YOUR OWN BODY® magnets
$1,062.00
These magnetic learning tools bring the musculoskeletal system to life and place it in the hands of users of all ages. Increase retention of anatomical details and apply this developing language to dance technique for more articulate, informed, and literate dancers. See how easily these tools integrate dance with science. Ideal for university dance degree programs, science departments, high school dance programs, high school science departments, private/professional dance studios, dance conservatories, education labs, kinesiology professionals. Created by Anne Wilcox.
New BONE-APART® magnet set
$217.00
Actively learn anatomy! Construct your own skeleton with life-sized magnetic bones. Enjoy building the human structure one bone at a time; challenge students with skeleton-building relays; and play “Ouch Bone,” an activity in which students identify the misplaced bone! Introduce bone magnets to your students to aid their understanding of the body’s structural landmarks. Created by Anne Wilcox.
Bone Apart Twins-2 Anatomy Construction Sets
$425.00
Two Bone-Apart® construction sets make for twice the skeletal interaction by doubling hands-on time with the near life-size magnetized bones. Identical twin sets increase group work and enable competitions like timed relays that require skeletal understanding. Get double duty with critical-thinking activities that personalize instruction and provide authentic performance assessments. [Bone-Apart® is a registered trademark of Anne Wilcox, its creator.]
The 3-Step Choreographic Process
$21.00
Instill dance’s distinct three-step compositional process: Originate, Organize, Refine. Within the three steps, also show the various choreographic processes available to aid composition. Learn them as essential to the craft of choreography as well as how to deploy at least one during each step.
PHRASE
$29.50
Teach phrasing as a building block of both dance choreography and performance. Teach “phrase” as a complete movement statement with a beginning-middle-ending, and as the smallest organizational unit of a dance.
“22 Ways to Vary a Phrase”
$21.00
1 color poster on sturdy cardstock, 19 x 13 inches. This poster is a work horse. In easy-to-understand language this universal cue card specifies to all ages manipulative devices (or tools) available when manipulating movement.
Beginning-Middle-Ending
$25.00
The concept of beginning- middle-ending (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.
The Ubiquitous Beginning-Middle-Ending
$19.00
This poster merges information with inspiration. It offers an opportunity to emphasize the significance of the super-structure that governs the development of the whole as well as the parts of a dance. To place BME in such a broad context underscores its compositional importance. For MS and HS, adults.
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.
How They Became Famous Dancers book
$35.50
Learn how these famous dancers with varied backgrounds and personalities shared a passion for dance and how they used their passion to succeed. This soft-bound book gives readers the history of 12 famous dancers (six men and six women) such as Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Laban, Pearl Primus, and Louis XIV. 136 pages, 79 Illustrations (31 in color). Geared to readers age 9-14 but enjoyable by all ages.
A Shadow of a Dream book
$29.50
This children’s picture book takes the child on an imaginative journey with the DANCER. What does DANCER dream about when he goes to sleep? Go inside the mind of a shadow puppet and explore with him as he becomes a raven, a fish, an elephant and other fantastic creatures. Geared for early childhood imagination and creativity.
Four Ways to Inquire in Dance” (set of 5)
$39.00
How do you explain dance inquiry? Try showing how to inquire into dance’s artistic processes. Four posters ask the essential questions basic to each artistic process. Examine dance from the four perspectives shown on the cover poster. Develop habits of personal inquiry as creator, performer, responder/critic, and dance historian/anthropologist to make important connections. Alternate which perspective takes center stage and which plays supporting roles.
Use these questions as points of entry, points of emphasis, points of reflection, or points of reference to each lesson. These personalized reflections lead to ongoing inquiry and insight.
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.
5 Ws Poster Version 2
21.00
The 5W inquiry process generates important details to support or to launch a lesson. It directs thinking in the same way that the first paragraphs of an article directs attention to its main features — the “who, what, when, where” questions set the stage for the big question “why?”
Dance Literacy Poster
$15.00
Dance Literacy is the result of meaningful inquiry into dance from a number of perspectives. Alert all who enter your classroom that your standards-based teaching incorporates valuable educational components that lead to literacy in dance.
Take a Moment to Dance
$15.00
Want a catchy image full of motion to grab attention as people walk into the studio? Let this “splashy” poster do just that!
Dance for the Body, and for the Mind, and for the Creative Spirit
$19.00
Advocate for the holistic benefits of dance by displaying a poster like this where it will get the attention it deserves.
DANCER magnet
$16.50
This fun, movable magnet helps you instruct your students regarding proper posture, dance positions, stage direction and more. the 12-inch DANCER magnet easily repositions into intriguing shapes and actions with the touch of a finger. Magnet designed by Rami Geller.
DEGAS DANCER magnet
$16.50
DEGAS DANCER is a 12-inch magnet with hinged joints that bring her to life. Her mobility enables her to demonstrate proper alignment, flexion and extension, and much more. The magnet, like the art work that inspired it, features a ballet skirt to add movement interest to the figure and her choreography. Magnet designed by Rami Geller.
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.”)
STACK: Five DANCER magnets
$77.50
Want enough magnets to energize group work? Get five! One magnet per group provides the catalyst for creative and collaborative problem-solving. Possibilities are endless, so here are some starter suggestions. Magnet designed by Rami Geller.
STACK: Five DEGAS DANCER magnets
$77.50
Want enough magnets to energize group work? Get five! One magnet per group provides the catalyst for creative and collaborative problem-solving. Possibilities are endless, so here are some starter suggestions. Magnet designed by Rami Geller.
STACK: Five Mixed Magnets
$77.50
Five Mixed Magnets: 3 DANCER + 2 DEGAS DANCER. (See individual descriptions of each magnet for more information..) Magnets designed by Rami Geller.
Dancing Graphics
Funky Monkey magnet
$16.50
The highly tactile shadow puppet engages all ages. He is free to be moved without concern for gravity, shape, or external weather conditions. Why? Because numerous tiny magnets encourage you to dance him all over the place. Slide him, slip him, shape him, adjust him. Move different parts through space and discover what happens to the rest of the body. Magic. Enjoy the fun.
Spooky Duo
$32.00
Happy Halloween! Celebrate with this “dynamic duo” of spooky personalities to add a new dimension to your seasonal festivities or for any other occasion. This happy duo is in limited supply this Fall, so don’t wait to order if you want them.