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DocuSign Envelope ID:06711178-0E3F-4541-A834-A91 FC422F4D1 <br /> i <br /> Ik <br /> 1 i <br /> 1 Dance Brainstorm and Crosswalk 1 <br /> This is a good warm-up activity to take place before the show, if you have 10- 1 <br /> 15 minutes to spare. It also could be divided into two parts, with the 1 <br /> brainstorming before the show, and the crosswalk afterwards. If you do the 1 <br /> entire exercise before the performance, you can revisit it afterwards, to see if <br /> 1 students would like to make some modifications based on what they 1 <br /> 1 the <br /> learned at the show. j ■ <br /> S 1 <br /> Brainstorming: Ask the students to call out different types of music, and write 1 <br /> 1 these in one column on the board or flipchart. They may think of current 1 <br /> popular distinctions (e.g. hip-hop, rap), and if so, you can suggest they also 1 <br /> > think of "older" styles of music to get a wider range (e.g. classical, blues). 1 <br /> Ask the students to next call out different styles of dance, and write these in 1 <br /> another column to the right of the first one. Again, students may think initially 1 <br /> 1 of current dance styles, but encourage them to think more broadly. 1 <br /> 1 <br /> Crosswalk: Ask the students to match up the types of music most associated 1 <br /> S with the types of dance, drawing lines between the two columns, as shown in 1 <br /> the example below. You might give them an easy example first, such as 1 <br /> classical music matched with ballet. 1 <br /> 1 1 <br /> > Example of Brainstorm Crosswalk 1 <br /> 1 Music Dance 1 <br /> There are no right or wrong 1 <br /> Z Popular Tap answers. Not all forms of music will 1 <br /> 1 Ballet be closely identified by your 1 <br /> 1 Country ', students with a particular form of 1 <br /> 1 Classical Hip-hop dance, and some students might 1 <br /> consider that any dance can be 1 <br /> 1 Jazz Clogging done with any music. NCYTE 1 <br /> Swing dances include music of many 1 <br /> 1 Bluegrass g genres that some might not <br /> 1 <br /> 1 associate with tap (e.g. bluegrass, 1 <br /> 1 classical). The crosswalk exercise 1 <br /> may help students to recognize this, as well as point out that all types of 1 <br /> 1 music are fair game for a tap treatment. 1 <br /> Rhythms of Life 1 <br /> 1 Rhythm is all around us every day, and tap dancers have taken some of their j <br /> 1 inspirations from the sounds they noticed as part of their everyday lives. Ask 1 <br /> 1 1 <br /> > North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble-Guide for teachers 9 1 <br />