Course Syllabus
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Course Name
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Course Code
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Term/Year
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Start Date
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End Date
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Location
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Ballroom I
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PED 186 E
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Winter 2025
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Jan 6th
2025
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March 20 th
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Rachel’s School of Dance
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Instructor Information
Name: Manuela Pascual/ Dave Reed
E-mail: manuela.pascual@klamathcc.edu
Phone:5418920614
Place–Rachel’s School of Dance at 7:00 pm
Course Description:
This class develops skills in ballroom dance at a beginner / intermediate level as well as enriching the depth of the dance technique and skill performance. Focus is placed on appropriate partnering to lead or follow rhythm, style, and phrasing. Dances may include waltz, foxtrot, tango, rumba, cha-cha, swing, Salsa, and Nightclub Two Step.
Credit Hours – 1 credit hour
Prerequisites – None
Class Times – Mondays- Wednesdays from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Place: Rachel’s School Of Dance
Course Requirements
Course Materials – Ware Good comfortable clothes and shoes. Bring a partner of your liking.
Student Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
Demonstrate a variety of dance skills for leading/ following in each dance. Also, students will learn and apply dance etiquette rules to facilitate social dance protocols. Dancers learn to open their sphere of awareness, their peripheral vision, beyond the normal restricted "bubble" of solo or partner dancing. In this way, dancers coordinate and adjust their individual feel and timing and style to make the dance "click". When this happens, it is very exciting indeed!
Grading Policy
Total of 100 points per term.
50 for participation in class/ 50 for growth and performance.
Note: if you missed more than y 3 classes per session per semester without proper justification your grade will be affected. Please attend classes as if they were as important as any others and remember the most important is that you are having fun, fun, fun.
Late Work Policy
Student’s participation is important. Missing classes will jeopardize the student and the group and partner work will be compromised. After 3 absents, please contact teacher for other arraignments.
Dances for Winter term:
Waltz:
The Waltz continuous to be one of the most romantic and elegant dances of all times. With long sweeping movements constant rotating with stylish poses. Great dance for weddings!
Basic moves:
Box step
Ladies underarm turn
Basic progressive
Outside partner
Ladies inside turn
Spiral turns
Twinkles
Tango:
Argentine Tango is an improvised, spontaneous dance, which is based on variations of walking, turning, pausing and adornments. Argentine tango is often danced in close embrace, or salon style:
BASIC STEPS: WALK, CROSS, BASIC BODY TURNS, FRONT ANS BACK OCHOS GANCHOS, PARADAS, AND GIROS.
Nightclub 2 Step:
NC-2 step is a very practical social or club dance. It is designed for Soft Rock Love songs that are too slow for the other ballroom dances. Learn this dance well and you will transfer most of the concepts and technical skills to all the other dances. The rhythm is simple and rarely changes. Let’s go to the club!
Basic Moves:
Basic step
The Basic Step Take a relaxed closed dance position.
Count 1 The Lead takes a slow step to the left side with his left foot as the Follow steps side right.
2 The Lead rocks his right foot behind his left heel, taking weight on the ball of his right foot, as the Follow rocks back left. & both replace weight off the rock step.
3 The Lead takes a slow step to the right side as the Follow steps side left.
4 The Lead rocks his left foot behind as the Follow rocks back right. & both replace weight off the rock step. This timing is slow-quick-quick, slow-quick-quick. As mentioned, some dancers prefer rock step first: quick-quick-slow, quick-quick-slow.
- Flip-Flops (Toss-Across)
- Spot Turn
- She-Goes-He-Goes
- around the World
American Country 2
The country/western two-step, often called the "Texas two-step" or simply the "two-step," is a country/western dance usually danced to country music.
As with other country/western dances, there are different versions of two step
Basic Steps:
Basic walks
Basic turns
Sweetheart position
Skaters position
COURSE SCHEDULE:
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Week #:
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Topic
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Notes
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1
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Review syllabus, fundamentals of dance, music, and partnering
Getting to know the basics /Start up moves
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Review some moves
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2
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Review star up moves
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rotations and who moves where
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3
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Continue beginners moves/
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Keep the dancing flow/ Ask students to lead and follow
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4
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Review course beginners moves and start new moves for leading
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Teach cross-hand moves
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5
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Alternative underarm turns in both dances
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6
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Walks/ steps/ turns
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Turns are very important/ swing is all about partnership location
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7
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Using music to create communication between dance partners
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Music speeds will vary
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8
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Dance starts to flow, and steps have been memorized
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Review steps
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9
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Importance of leading and following in each dance
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10.
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Last chance to become a good leader or follower in dancing with a partner /review and solidify learning objectives
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Students will be grade for participation and growth
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