At what age do children start to learn dance?

Q: What type of dance is suitable for small children in large activities? A: Small children are suitable for some rhythmic movements, as well as simple song performances. Q: My baby moves as soon as he hears music. A: Maybe your baby is very small, let your child listen to more music and encourage him... Related: ◇ How old is too old to start learning dance formally >>Detailed ◇ A collection of questions about children learning dance >>Detailed ◇ Four ways to cultivate children's dancing ability >>Detailed ◇ Suggesting that children should start to learn dance at the age of four >>Detailed ◇ Can you tell us about the origins of "ballet"? A. Ballet is the most popular form of dance in the world. A: "Ballet" originated in Italy and flourished in France. Ballet is initially a European mass self-entertainment or square performance of dance, in the development process formed a strict norms and structural forms, its main feature is that actresses have to wear special pointe shoes to stand up on their toes to dance. As a comprehensive stage art, ballet originated in Italy in the 17th century at the French court. It is a combination of singing, dancing, music, recitation and dramatic plot. 1661 established five basic foot positions and twelve hand positions, of which the five basic foot positions have been used until now. Q: If my child has no dance foundation, how can I choose a dance theme? A: or should make up some small combinations, like children's songs, such as the little bee, good baby, is a simple four, six lines to the child to make up some small song and dance combinations suitable for the child, the child can be interested in but also play a training purpose, but pay attention to teach the child every movement, to the correct, standard dance posture to teach him. Don't let the child gulp down the movements blindly. Q: What kind of dance is suitable for small children in large-scale activities? A: It is suitable for small children to do some rhythmic movements, as well as simple song performances. Q: My baby moves when he hears music, what should I do to cultivate this? A: Maybe your baby is very small, so let your child listen to more music and encourage him to move spontaneously. This will enable him to find his self-expression ability in music. When he goes to kindergarten, he can be trained to dance according to the kindergarten dance syllabus, and he can even be put into the dance interest for more dance training than other children later on. Q: At what age is it better to start learning dance? A: Dance should be said to be hand dancing, people are born with this function. Then, we are talking about the norms of learning dance, from shallow to deep, from small classes to start learning, just learning different content. Q: Will children's height be affected by practicing basic skills such as flexibility too early? A: Reasonable and moderate flexibility practice will not affect the development of the body, on the contrary, it will help the child's physical development. Q: My child can dance, but she can't dance to music, is it because she doesn't have the talent to dance? Or is it because of the child's age or other reasons? A: I don't know what age your child is, but there is a difference in musical rhythm between children. Some children are not born with a strong sense of rhythm, which depends on our training in dance, where we have to emphasize the heavy beat and the focus of the movement. If the child can't understand the music, have him watch another child's movements. For example, if the child raises his hand on the beat, and you tell him to raise his hand when others raise theirs, you can train him a few more times, and his sense of rhythm will improve immediately with the music. Of course, tell parents to listen to more rhythmic music when they get home. Children with a poor sense of rhythm can be corrected through training at an early age. With the training of rhythm, his dance will also improve. "Ankang (Public Welfare) Network" Expert: Yu Chunyi Member of Chinese Dancers Association, Director of China Children's Song and Dance Society. Former Creator of the Civilian Troupe of the Political Department of the Chinese Air Force, Artistic Director and Chief Director of the Blue Sky Early Childhood Art Troupe, Senior Choreographer and Director Q: May I ask: How can we make young children learn to dance happily and proactively in a lively atmosphere and maximize their positive initiative? A: To make young children dance happily, it is necessary to organically combine the law of dance art itself with the physical and mental characteristics of young children. The methods are as follows: 1) Choose the content rich in children's interests so that young children can learn dance happily. That is to say, rich in children's life interest, children like, familiar with the things and things. For example, in the dance of "Good Mother" and "Penny", the children sing and dance with their feelings, and learn the dance happily without realizing it; 2) Stimulate interest so that the children can learn the dance happily. Teachers can let children enjoy live performances or utilize the role of small props in dance teaching to stimulate children's interest; 3) Play the function of music to help children learn dance happily. Music is the soul of dance, music and dance is a kind of mutual expression, mutual promotion of the unity, image vivid music can play the imagination and expression of young children, let young children listen to more and more to appreciate the music, and then the dance movements organically fused together, young children can learn dance happily. 4) Utilize various methods to make children learn dance happily. You can use stories, games, make-up, stage, costumes and other methods to make children learn dance happily. In short, different ages choose different dance works to teach toddlers, but all should be childish and avoid adultization. Q: Hello, Mr. Yu! Wouldn't the use of multimedia affect the teacher's communication with the children, resulting in the children not being lively? A: When you need to use multimedia, let the children appreciate the dance works and inspire them in the process of appreciation. For example, see how well people dance, dance what content, so that everyone will not, we can follow the imitation to do, these can make the child lively, but in the rehearsal time, it is necessary to be demonstrated by the teacher. Q: May I ask: At what age can I learn International Standard Dance? A: If you want your child to learn international standard dance professionally and systematically, you should do it on top of your child's foundation of common dance. For example, training in basic dance skills, basic ballet skills, training in foreign representative dances ...... After that, the technical skills of international standard dance will be practiced, and the child will be able to accurately use his/her own body and master the style of international standard dance; if it is just casually learned, then there is no need for a time limit. Q: Hello, Mr. Yu! I am a teacher in Liaoyuan, Jilin. Our garden also emphasizes the cultivation of dance art. Generally children are highly interested in dance performance at the age of 4. How can dance education be better developed for children of this age? What should we pay attention to? A: A four-year-old child should be in the age of middle class. In the small class, you should do some simple music rhythm and rhythmic exercises. In the middle class, on this basis, you can do some performance pieces of children's songs. For two or three minutes there is a change of formation, a song and then some dance movements, so that the children like to dance. It should be noted that it is not too difficult, and even more important to prevent adultization. Dance movements try to choose the child suitable for the basic pace, if it is a characteristic dance, such as minority dances and foreign dances should also choose a more typical, simple movements. The changes should be smooth and easy for the children to memorize, laying the foundation for more complicated dance works in the older classes. Q: How to reflect quality education in dance education? A: Young children in the process of learning dance can be subjected to the cultivation of beauty, but also by the collective concept of training, because the dance is everyone together; can be subjected to the education of organization and discipline, because in the rehearsal of the dance process needs to have a strict discipline; can promote the healthy development of the left and right brain, because the dance is through the left and right hands and feet and the whole body movement; can be educated to get the number of concepts because the dance has a distance, Various pairs of shape (circle, triangle, square, etc.) changes; can get the training of logical thinking, because the dance works are thematic ideas, etc. ...... In short, can be subtle enlightenment and education to promote the children's physical fitness, ideology and moral character, intellectual development and aesthetic education and other comprehensive qualities of the children's education, so as to achieve the following The effect of teaching for fun and beauty. Through the dance training can also promote the development of young children's bones, improve the children's physical quality; through the dance teaching can also develop children's intelligence, cultivate young children's upward mental quality, cultivate young children's attention, memory and rapid reflection ability. In short, there are many benefits for young children to learn dance. Q: What kind of language can be used to explain the many vocabularies in dance so that children can understand them more clearly? For example, how do I explain "sending the hips" to my children so that they can do it more effectively? A: Rehearsals for young children are really different from those for adults, so you have to use their language and make it understandable to them. First of all, imitation comes first. Therefore, the teacher is required to imitate the movements accurately so that the children can understand them at a glance. Add language to the imitation process. For example, if you talk about sending the hips, the word sending the hips is not appropriate for young children. Because there are different kinds of hips, I don't know what style of hips you are referring to. In the movement, you can talk about thrusting the hips out and into which direction. For example, in children's terms, if you suck in the legs, you say go to the chest with the knees; for example, both sides facing the sky? You would say that both hands are raised towards the sky, the arms look for the ears, the back is then upright, etc. There are different explanations for different movements, in any case, children should be able to understand. Q: May I ask Mr. Yu: What are the requirements of dance teaching for teachers' language expression? A: I. Accuracy: Whether explaining or transferring knowledge, the teacher's accuracy is most important. Second, vivid: vivid language can arouse children's interest, thus reducing the painful part of dance training. Language should be: 1, concise: the teacher's words should be as accurate and simple as possible, can not abet, otherwise the child's interest will be reduced. 2, kind: the teacher's language should be vivid, the image can not be too harsh, too hard, the child is prone to resistance and rebelliousness, so the teacher should have patience. 3, teach: the teacher should be a comprehensive demonstration, the child can be familiar with the gradual simplification of the action demonstration, and finally let the children to complete the movement themselves. Finally, let the children finish the movements by themselves. Q: What should children pay attention to when learning basic dance skills? A: Young children are in the stage of physical development, so in the training, attention should be paid to the growth of the child's bones, muscle development and so on. The training of children and teenagers should not be copied on the body of young children. However, toddlers can do some simple flexibility exercises for standing and sitting. For example, sitting on the ground rowing a boat; do do little Yuanbao, lying on the ground to do little swallow fly; lying on the ground to do do leg extension and hook taut. A lot of dance training should be in the early childhood dance works with the correct dance movement posture to train children. Enable young children to have correct dance posture during the performance of dance. One head, one foot should have accurate misguided posture to achieve the purpose of training. Q: What are the ways to teach young children dance? A: Teaching young children dance can take the following methods, 1) Inspiration: let young children imagine and show themselves; 2) Demonstration: Teacher complete or part of the difficult movements teacher, guiding young children to observe carefully; 3) Exercise: let young children do their own movements, the teacher guides; 4) Decomposition and combination: the key points of the movement, the difficult points and the basic movements are first decomposed and then combined; 5) Observation and imitation: Teacher as teacher, young children 6) Game method: using the tone and form of the game to teach dance; 7) Individual teaching method: individual coaching for children, tailored to the needs of the students; 8) Explanation, prompting, password method: using language to help children understand, feel, master and express the content of the dance. Q: Some children are not willing to move, always do not talk there, so how to cultivate children's interest in dance activities and enthusiasm? A: First of all, we have to see whether the teaching content is in line with the children's characteristics. If it is a popular dance, we should choose small children's songs, so that the children can sing and talk while dancing. In the case of small classes, we should focus on rhythmic movement, so as to inspire the children's interest. Of course there are some children who do not want to learn dance, then we should also respect their individual development, maybe they like art and sports, then let them choose. Q: Hello, Mr. Yu! Our kindergarten has just started a dance class. There is a 5-year-old girl who is not well, but she is especially interested in dance, and she is very active and performs well in every class. But her parents are very worried. How should we convince them? Answer: In more than 20 years of rehearsal experience, children in dance class not only have great benefits in learning dance, but also very good for health. Often the other kindergarten classes have the flu, but the children in the dance class are healthy because they exercise a lot. For weak children, we have to pay attention to care in rehearsal, drink more water, timely add clothing, take off the clothes before the dance, do not go out in the wind immediately after sweating and so on. After the dance training her body will slowly get better than not participating in the dance will be much better. You can convince parents in this way. Q: Is it necessary to learn the basic skills for young children's dance? A: First of all, there are two concepts, one is what is toddler dance? What are the basic skills? We tend to think that the basic skills is the lower back splits to do skills, now in some of the children's and young people's dance works, often skills to skills, turn over and over, not to focus on the content of the dance works. Young children's dance should pay attention to the children's work, the content of the work. With children's, vivid, lively dance movements to reflect the young children's dance works, do not emphasize more unsuitable for young children's development skills movement. Only when these two concepts are clarified, it may be beneficial for young children's dance. But is there no training for toddler dance? Not really. The so-called training is to make him have a basic sitting and standing posture and basic beautiful dance movements. In the rehearsal of toddler dance, the teacher has to accurately teach the dance movements to the toddler. For example, a raise of the hand and a swing of the head are so beautiful and handsome, which in itself is one of the elements of training for young children, and it is very important. Of course it is possible and necessary to have some flexibility exercises, but don't overdo it, otherwise it will affect the development of young children's body. Q: Can you introduce some good websites for dance? A: China Early Childhood Dance Education Network, China Dance Network, Dance Education Network, Everyday Education and so on. Q: Hello Professor Yu, in what period of time is it most suitable for young children to learn dance, and what should be paid attention to in terms of diet? What kind of dance is good for the future development of young children? A: Dance should be said to be the hands and feet, people are born with this function. Then, we are talking about the norms of learning dance, from shallow to deep, from small classes to start learning, just learning different content. If it is intensive dance training, you can add some wafer chocolate, yogurt, etc., to supplement the consumption of calories, but also pay attention to let the child drink more water, to ensure his normal growth. Q: What should I pay attention to in creating a dance for my small class? A: 1) The movement is simple and, to a certain extent, interesting. 2) The dance should have a certain plot content. 3) The music should be cheerful, rhythmic, structurally clear, and the emotional style should be prominent. 4) The children should be involved in the creation of the dance movement. Q: What should I pay attention to in the rehearsal of small group dance? A: 1) The rehearsal time of the dance should not be too long. 2) The rehearsal should be strategic. The teacher should go to the children and use the form that they like to receive. 3) Tell the content of the dance to the children in order to increase their interest and promote their mastery of the dance movements. 4) Encouragement and praise should be the main focus of the rehearsals. Children's feelings are relatively fragile, poor mental capacity, the teacher should patiently encourage and comfort the children so that they will love to learn and enjoy the dance. 5) The props used in the rehearsal should be finely crafted. Q: Mr. Yu, what are the requirements of dance teaching for teachers' language expression? A: In the rehearsal, the language expression should be very clear. First of all, the teacher's mind should be very clear, no matter it is the logical thinking in the dance, or the focus of his image, the focus of the movement, the beat of the music, the teacher should be very clear. It is very important to make the movements and the beats clear when teaching to the children. The focus of the movement, the repetition of the movement, and the exact position of the image must be very clear to the child. In order for the child to memorize the picture, put a little marker on the floor appropriately. When teaching children's movements, the teacher's movements must be standardized, horizontal for horizontal and vertical for vertical. Therefore, the language should be simple and precise, so that each child can do the movements on a clear basis. Q: Teacher, when boys learn dance in kindergarten, are the basic movement requirements and difficulties less than those of girls of the same age? A: In early childhood dance training, boys and girls should not be separated, they should be the same. Boys are sometimes a little slower to accept, but that doesn't mean he can't do it. We hope that teachers will pay attention to the style of boys and pay more attention to the toughness of boys. Q: Hello! What kind of music should be chosen for dancing, and what do I need to pay more attention to in terms of stage? A: The music should be determined by the dance piece. If it is a general song or a song and dance, then you can choose songs and dances suitable for children, or the music of the program you want to engage in, but must pay attention to suitable for children. If it's a good dance piece, a kind of writing music for specialized composers after the structure and thematic ideas of the dance come out, it's more suitable for that dance piece. If there is no dance music writing ability, then go to choose some and your dance structure, dance image in line with some suitable music, as a cut. All of this work is based on the dance work, because the dance work has an image, the music also has an image, and these two must match. That's why we advocate that it's better to get someone to write the music if you can do it. The stage is just the icing on the cake, you can't rely entirely on the stage, because our performance is a young child's performance, he has to adapt to different occasions, and there are occasions when there are no lights and scenery, so do you just not perform? So don't rely on him. If there are conditions we have to design the stage according to the connotation of the dance work: including the set and lighting, of course, this also needs to spend some money. According to the different requirements of the dance to decide whether you use the stage set, but in the stage set must be simple, clean, give people the enjoyment of beauty, do not add to the snake. Q: Hello, Mr. Yu. My child is almost 6 years old this year, learning dance has been 1.5 years, the child is particularly fond of Latin dance, but as a parent I do not understand the dance, do not understand why so many people learn Latin dance? A: Because the rhythm of Latin dance is relatively bright, especially cha-cha-cha and cowboy music is relatively bright, but also suitable for children's lively mentality, Latin dance is a foreign dance, so many people are learning. Latin dance is a kind of national standard dance, if you want your child to learn national standard dance professionally and systematically, it should be carried out on top of the child has a certain dance foundation. For example, after training in basic dance skills, basic ballet skills, training in representative foreign dances, etc., and then practicing the techniques and skills of international standard dance, the child will be able to accurately use his/her body and master the style of international standard dance. Q: What kind of children are suitable for learning ballet? A: First of all, the concept of ballet should be clear, ballet training is not the same as pointe dance, pointe dance is not suitable for young children. However, the basic training in ballet can be used as a reference in the training of young children. The issue of training can be covered in the next question. Q: The question of how to bring out the subjectivity of young children in dance teaching has been troubling me, and I would like to ask Mr. Yu to help me solve this problem. A: There are two concepts, one is that we have to inspire children's subconscious of spontaneous dance, which is one course; the other is that we rehearse young children's dance works for them, which is another course. The content of these two courses is different. If we are rehearsing a dance piece, it means that we are teaching a molded dance to children, which is mainly teaching-based. If we are inspiring the children, we can use multimedia, on the multimedia computer, screen some small combinations of children's performances or play some music for the children to imitate, so that the children creatively do their own movements in the music; or, the teacher teaches a few basic movements, and we all dance together as a group, which is also possible, and in this case, it may give play to the children's subjectivity. So lessons are not the same as classes, depending on what kind of lessons you take, then we can talk about subjectivity. Q: Is it possible to have some English songs in the dance, so that the children can learn the fun of dance and English at the same time? A: You can choose some English songs for young children to rehearse dance, but the music must be understandable and suitable for children.