International standard Latin dance also refers to sports dance, which is divided into rumba, cha-cha, cowboy, samba and bullfighting. Associations are divided into: World Sports Dance Federation (WDSF), World International Standard Dance Federation (WDC), China Sports Dance Teachers Association (CDTA) and other associations. Let's take a look at the key points of children's Latin dance teaching. I hope everyone will adopt it!
I. Basic forms
There is no doubt that the root cause of this problem is the single teaching content. Many grass-roots teachers are aware of this problem, but they don't know how to solve it effectively because of their lack of dance literacy. Generally speaking, the training that is most easily overlooked by grass-roots sports dance teachers is flexibility exercise.
The technique of sports dance requires high flexibility of shoulders, chest and waist, spine, hip joint and ankle joint, and also requires a strong sense of straightness of knees. It is difficult to achieve good teaching results only by some conventional teaching methods. There are some practical basic means. The more teachers master, the more useful they will be when children need to improve.
Second, music.
The right or wrong of music rhythm is the most important thing in the competition judgment. No matter good or bad, the wrong jump of music rhythm will be eliminated directly, which shows the importance of music rhythm. However, many young players are not sure about the rhythm of music, or they can't step on music at all, which forces teachers to think calmly: Is it because children don't understand music or there is something wrong with teaching? The answer is obvious.
Many teachers shout rhythm to students while playing music in class, which is very easy to cause students' dependence. Teachers should let students count their own beats and cultivate their habit of counting rhythms with music. For students who are born with poor sense of rhythm, teachers can train them to clap their hands, listen to the song attentively, and then catch the heaviest first beat? One? Or listen carefully to the fourth beat unique to Latin music? Knock, knock. . In teaching, teachers can also help students intuitively feel the characteristics and feelings of Latin rhythm with the help of Congo drumming rhythm.
Third, the body.
Before the Latin class, the teacher usually leads the students for 20-40 minutes of physical training. This is very important, but we should also pay attention to the content of the practice which is helpful to Latin dance, rather than simply kicking, leg press and fork.
Ballet body training is very helpful to Latin dance. In ballet training, I will choose a few simple movements: for example, I can find the feeling of feet and floor by practicing scrubbing the floor and before and after; For example, in ballet, one foot is changed into a small eight-character stance, which is also called Latin stance. The requirements are to hold your head high, pull your neck up, press your shoulders down, and clamp your thighs.
After long-term training, students will establish a good sense of righteousness. In addition, the posture of ballet can also be used for reference, but you must add sucking, as described in this sentence. A hand without sucking is like a dry branch, but with sucking, it feels like a willow swaying in the wind and has vitality. ?
Fourth, the basic steps
When I first started teaching, I didn't pay much attention to the basic steps. I will spend more time on training, gold, silver, copper and tricks. But I gradually found that once students are confused by the flower steps and can't calm down and practice the basic steps, it is difficult to improve their level greatly.
So in class, I will arrange an hour of basic step training: slow down the music, from the training in four directions (front, back, left and right) such as kukla Cha (8-character turn to hip), squeezing (changing the center of gravity), square step and kukla Cha to new york Cha, fixed-point turn, hand in hand, front and back, etc.
Five, dance movements
It is said that children should learn to dance step by step, and laying a good foundation is the key. However, in the process of grading examination, I seldom see children whose mentality has improved steadily. All movements are clean and neat, and there is no impurity in the dance. Most children, whether they are gold, silver or bronze medals, can find that their dances are more or less irregular.
Of course, some movements are not allowed to be related to the child's physiology, and the muscle ability may not meet the requirements of completing the most beautiful movements, but at least it should be horizontal and vertical. In short, lines are the key for beginners. During the grade examination, some children stood there with a particularly cute image, but their necks shrank at the beginning of dancing, which made me wonder why the more they jumped, the uglier they became. What's more, the shape of the spine is not particularly good, even worse.
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