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Notes for Young
At Heart and Shim
Sham dances.
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New
Young At Heart - Instructional Video - Basics Dance
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NEW
Dance Happy Classes
Lynnette's trademark program is the most enjoyable way
to introduce students to dance. While learning fun and simple
dances, students will have the chance to develop their unique
style and discover the true joy of dancing.
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Classes at the Bellingham Senior Center are ongoing:
Mondays: 2:00 -
3:00pm - Beginners - Starting Sept 6 - Oct 25 - Beginners
tap 8 week session
Wednesdays: 3:30 - 4:30pm - Basics - Starting Sept 8 - Oct
27
Thursdays: 3:15 - 4:15pm - Intermediate until September, then:
Thursdays: 3:15 - 4:14pm - Starting Sept 2 - Oct 21, 8 week
session - Dance Happy class
Dance Happy class
My goal is to bring out the dancer in everyone!
These classes are designed to develop confidence, flexibility,
vitality, and community in a fun and supportive atmosphere.
These 8 week sessions
will start at the beginning of the month, every 2 months.
Cost is $50/8 weeks. Registration is required. Sign up in
advance to reserve a spot for the 8 week session.
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Update August 24, 2010: New
Tap
and Dance Happy Classes Schedule
Classes are also at the BAAY and at the Yoga Studio at the
Old Foundry
Sunday Evening
class at The BAAY is ongoing:
6:30-7:30 PM- Beginners Tap
New Intermediate Tap Class, ages
8 -15. at the BAAY starts September 17th - 8 week sessions.
Fridays 3:30-4:30 - Intermediate Tap
New Dance Happy classes will
be at the Yoga Studio in the Old Foundry at Cornwall and Maple.
Tuesday evenings 7:30-8:30pm- ages 7-15 (Starts Sept 14th)
Thursdays 10:30-11:30am
- Adults (Starts Sept 16th)
Dance Happy classes get kids to jump right into the
fun of dancing. They will be able to learn popular dance styles
easily and quickly.
Cost: Registration is required for these classes -
$10
At the BAAY and
at the Yoga Studio at the Foundry: Starting September 14,
2010:
Tap Classes and Dance Happy Classes are in 8 week sessions,
1 hour a week - $90 for 8 weeks.
$160 for 2 classes a week for 8 weeks.
The BAAY is at State and Maple. The Foundry is at Cornwall
and Maple. The Yoga Studio is in the back. You can enter through
the front door or the side door.
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YAH Tap Classes defined
Beginner's Class - 2-3
pm Mondays - Senior Center
and 7-8 pm Sunday evenings - the BAAY (State & Maple)
Getting the 5 elements and 5 elemental steps really mastered and
up to speed, with time for individual attention.
Overcoming basic beginner problems like "paralyzed toe"
(learning to flex and use the ball of the foot as your percussion
instrument and "getting the rhythm of very basic combinations
of the five elemental steps" and lots of repetition.
Basics - 3:30-4:30 Wednesdays - (Ongoing) See Basics
Practice Sheet for the tap step vocabulary you will learn.
Note:
New students at the Senior Center: Unless
you have had tap lessons before, come to the Beginners classes
to get a good start. I go slower in this class. It's good also
for anyone wanting to brush up on the basics, or just practice.
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More
Info on Tap Classes
Hate
to exercise, but love to dance? Lighten up!
Get fit and have fun with us.
- Think
you are uncoordinated? Think again. You may find yourself
releasing years of delusion about your ability to learn to
dance, when you find yourself quickly dancing along,
- Unwinding
from mental and physical stress,
- Getting
those synapses working.
- Allowing
your mind and body to naturally organize themselves,
- This
is good for your memory and good for your well being
- It awakens
your Inner Muse
Please
get tap shoes as soon as you can. You will be making music. Your
body is your instrument and your tap shoes are an extension, a
percussion instrument. If you can hear a vibrant sound coming
from good tap shoes, it will be easier for you to learn and easier
for me to teach you the steps and you will enjoy it more. More
about where to purchase tap shoes
Guiding Principles for my classes:
1. Practice catching and cleaning up any self-criticizing thoughts.
This is the most productive habit of all. See mistakes as the
opportunities to learn that they are!
2. Learn the rhythms of the tap steps, they are little tunes.
That way you don't have to figure them out and they are easier
to learn and remember.
3. Practice new steps - by reviewing them a few times right away.
Ask to go over them again as many times as it takes to get them
right, when you first learn them. (Repeating a half-learned step
makes it harder to correct.)
4. If you get off, get right back on as quickly as possible!
5. Be a trooper! Be flexible and resourceful in doing whatever
it takes for the success of the dance. And be supportive of all
your classmates. You're a team.
6. Chat only before, after and at breaks, but not during class.
7. Give me your feedback. Let me know what you're experiencing
so I can be responsive to you.
8. Keep in good physical condition (whatever it takes).
9. Be responsible about coming on time,
coming regularly, paying on time.
10. Please let me know if you are going on vacation or are ill,
etc.
11.Register for the class so I have all your info and let me know
if it changes.
Thank you!
Bellingham Senior Center
315 Halleck Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
360-733-4030
Lynnette Allen,
MA in Dance, Mills College, Oakland, CA
BA in Physical Education, University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Internship in Dance Therapy, Pennsylvania State Hospital
Experience: Taught tap, jazz and modern classes during my high
school, college, and school teaching years. Choreographed and
taught dances for Children's Theatre and other dance productions.
lynallen4chg@yahoo.com
360 714-9305
More
information on tap shoes
Please get tap shoes as soon as possible, but come try it out
first. Wear some leather sole shoes if you have them, but any
will work.
You can
get tap shoes at Creative Dancewear, 2300 James Street - one
block toward town from Trader Joe's. They are about $35-70.
They are online at www.creativedancewear.net
You can
order less expensive shoes online at Discount Dance.
Here's the link:
http://www.discountdance.com/search/capezio-shoe/
Type in search field:
tap shoes
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YAH's
first performance!
Performing
is optional of course. I request that dancers self-select
on this as much as possible. If you have the dance, please dance
with us.
Copyright
2010 - Lynnette
Allen, MA
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