In the dance. Moreover, it can manifest itself as a simple composition, in the form of the creation of an artistic image, shown without the help of speech. It turns out that a person’s feelings, thoughts, and experiences are conveyed through movements and facial expressions.
In modern dance there are three directions, including folk, classical and modern look. The first and second types are basic, therefore they have a more expressive range of movements. The third option consists of all dance styles that appeared after classical ballet.
Dancing is good for children. After all, such a hobby helps to develop good stretching, gain plasticity and flexibility. In addition, it contributes to the development of creativity, as well as artistic taste.
Dance classes
Choreography for children is, first of all, about gaining confidence at a young age. In the process, the child realizes himself as an individual, directing his energy to self-development.
Lesson plan
The first step is to get to know classical movements, therefore children's choreography includes the following basics:
1. Position of arms and legs.
2. Individual movements.
3. Formation of posture.
4. Outdoor games including dance sketches.
After this material is mastered, the dance becomes more complex, and then new compositions are added.
Choreography for children is always accompanied by various pieces of classical and folk music, as well as children's songs and modern rhythms.
The meaning of dance
What is choreography in essence? For children, this is a game during which they learn to move to the music and master the basics of dance. Such activities help to develop physically and psychologically. Each parent decides for himself which direction to choose for his child, but it always looks better compared to others.
Classic for children
The ballet choreography program is very serious. After all, this is not just a dance - a way of life. All feelings and emotions require maximum dedication, work, and time. Although all efforts are not in vain, because ballet is at the top of the cultural hierarchy and requires special treatment.
This art combines beauty, as well as the perfection of form associated with depth. inner world. It is possible to learn multiple movements, but to grow as a person, to feel the music, movements, and create an image in dance is the most difficult thing. Not everyone knows how to perceive a melody deeply, with full responsibility, but only a few. Therefore, it is important to teach your child this quality.
What can you get from ballet?
1. Children who practice ballet from their youth do not have problems with the spine. This is because the posture immediately straightens and existing curvatures are corrected.
2. Learning to dance develops personal qualities in a child - psychological stability, perseverance, and determination.
3. Children's choreography helps to develop such a quality as the ability to achieve results in everything. Perhaps in the future this type of activity will not be professional, but people associated with it always stand out among others with their expressiveness.
Dance school
A good choreography school where they teach ballet art is not available in every city. Such an institution usually employs real professionals. It is these teachers who teach children the basics of dance, instilling in them respect for the classical art. Subsequently, people emerge from the ballet school who are examples of physical and spiritual perfection, arousing admiration among many. That is why the idea of doing this type of activity from childhood is very entertaining.
The child does not yet understand what choreography is, so knowledge is given gradually. The lesson program is usually created for each age separately. The youngest, from 4 to 6 years old, learn to stand and walk correctly while dancing. During the lesson, they learn dance steps, jumps, hand positions, body positioning, and develop
The choreography program for older children - from 6 to 10 years old - teaches concentration and techniques for performing movements at the barre. Therefore, the program usually includes repetition of existing knowledge and the inclusion of new elements, staging various sketches.
Grown-up children, starting from 10 years old, already decide for themselves whether to remain in this type of activity or not. This is because further classes are held at professional level with further realization of oneself as a ballet dancer. Of course, by this age a child should already have the necessary qualities, such as flexibility, correct steps and jumps.
What can other children do? The solution to this problem is simple - they perform well in any other type of dance. After all, what is choreography in ballet? This knowledge base is the basis of any other dance direction. Therefore, children from a young age acquire a huge amount of knowledge that helps them realize themselves in the future.
Of course, you need to prepare yourself for the long road that will have to be covered before the real big performance. That is why you will need qualities such as perseverance, hard work, patience, and determination. After all, those who know how to wait and work on themselves will one day achieve great success, which means that the young artist will definitely have a great future in the future.
Refresher courses
“Improving professional skills
Choreography teachers"
« Psychological approach and features of constructing a choreography lesson
With children 3-5 years old"
Kameneva Ya. A.
/choreography teacher of DDT Petrogradsky district
Exemplary dance ensemble "PEERS"/
2013
The age of 3-5 years is rightly called middle preschool. Mood instability, emotional vulnerability, concreteness and imaginative thinking, passion for play and play situations bring these children closer to younger preschoolers, many of the child’s cognitive abilities and personal characteristics are already taking shape. Imitation continues to play a major role in the perception of children in preschool childhood, especially when mastering new movements, operations, and actions. They perceive images of real objects and materialized actions more easily than words.
Like children aged one to three years, middle-aged preschoolers are egocentric: they do not yet understand that other people may have their own ideas about something that are different from their ideas, that it is generally possible for there to be different points of view on the same thing. same subject. As a rule, at this age children do not know how to look at an object from the perspective of another person.
Middle-aged preschoolers are not able to keep track of how an object changes and how it passes into another state. They perfectly record in memory only stable situations, initial and final states, but the process of transformation itself eludes them.
At this age, the child learns the language of feelings - socially accepted forms of expressing the subtlest shades of experiences with the help of glances, smiles, gestures, postures, movements, voice intonations, etc. Children still remain spontaneous and impulsive. The emotions they experience are easily read on their face, in their posture, gestures, and in their entire behavior. For the teacher, the child’s behavior, his expression of feelings - important indicator in understanding the inner world of a small person, indicating his mental state and possible development prospects. The emotional background in a lesson can be positive or negative. For example, a child’s complaint to a teacher is a manifestation, in a unique form, of his desire to communicate with him, a strong desire to talk about himself, most often about some of his difficulties and adversities, primarily in the sphere of relationships with other people. Complaining to an adult, a child seeks his sympathy, empathy and help. It is simply impossible to ignore all this. In some cases, it is enough to caress the child so that he stops whining, complaining about non-existent pain, in order to avoid doing certain exercises or part of the lesson. In others, his need for a positive assessment and respectful attitude should be satisfied. Thirdly, help organize interaction with peers by first explaining patterns of behavior and thereby eliminating the tendency to snitch. In all cases, the participation of the teacher will help the child master the norms of relationships with other people. But since the content of children’s complaints is different, the teacher’s attitude towards them should vary in accordance with their character.
Play, which is for a small child not only a school of learning about the world around adults, but also a school of relationships between people, can have a big role in shaping children’s relationships with each other. IN preschool age play is one of the main forms of organizing children's life, during which children somehow influence each other and acquire life habits for themselves. Play activity influences the formation of all mental processes: voluntariness, imagination, imaginative thinking, etc. It is this activity that is leading in preschool age and determines the further path of the child’s mental development.
Based on knowledge of the psychology of children aged 3-5 years, the teacher-choreographer must be able to correctly build a lesson plan on choreography and rhythm plasticity. Thus, when studying drawing in a dance class, acquiring dance skills, musical perception, rhythmic features and interaction with other students in a group, you need to use the game as the main feature of a given age to achieve the goals in each individual group.
In my lessons for kids, I try to find connections between individual outdoor games and images with movements, exercises and dance tasks in order to get desired results. Each part of the practical lesson needs to be commented on or named in words (images, objects, characters) that children can understand, and often children themselves suggest one or another definition for their actions in rhythmoplasty (early choreography) lessons.
A playful music and dance lesson for children lasts only 30-50 minutes. During the lesson, children learn to express emotions through movement, develop imaginative thinking and imagination, a sense of rhythm and musicality, concentration, and memory. But it also happens that the general emotional mood of the children is not reflected as desired by the teacher, the children begin to get distracted and the group’s attention literally dissipates before our eyes. With some experience, individual items that are in the dance class or prepared for such a case by the teacher may become a solution. Or it can become part of the clothing (for example, a sock or ballet shoe removed while practicing on the mat - under the pretext of a stuffy room) and performing all the usual exercises using this item, which again involves children in the game and concentrates attention as something new.
In addition to games and exercises, there is work activity, still more often joint with the teacher, who acts not only as a person organizing and directing children, but also as a direct participant in the process of disciplining students in the dance class. For example, in a dance-game form, collect objects after the end of the lesson. The participation of the teacher prevents undesirable behavior of children by recording and encouraging their intermediate successes, leading them to achieve the final goal.
It is known that children of this age evaluate their peers based on the opinions of adults (parents and teachers). It is boys who are more often assessed negatively by adults as disobedient, pugnacious, etc. Girls, on the other hand, better meet the requirements of adults, they are kind, obedient, calm, etc. Because of this, girls are more likely to deserve praise and positive evaluations. Regarding boys, due to the peculiarities of the age of 3-5 years, attention to the words of the teacher lasts no more than 2 minutes and praise or remark should be more specific (fact - for what). During the lesson, boys show more of the age characteristic “I WANT!”, and the task of the children’s choreographer is to make him believe in his strength and ability to move in the direction the teacher needs. It is very important to share the failure with the child, or if something doesn’t work out, to support him while performing the movements, relying on such knowledge of the psychology of the age of 3-5 years (crisis transition to “I MYSELF!” “I’M ALREADY BIG!”).
In general, preschoolers are kinesthetic learners, i.e. they need to try, and not listen or watch, so choreography classes perfectly meet this requirement in the development of children. When conducting a lesson with this age, the teacher needs to take into account that preschoolers remain diligent only for about 12 minutes, and they need frequent changes of activities and switching of attention. The fatigue of some children and the activity of other children can be poured into the form of a short concert as part of the lesson, which contributes to the development of creative performing skills, acting skills, memorization of the material covered and demonstration of skills acquired in rhythmoplasty. It is worth remembering that any improvisation should be based on preparation; you should not use this technique if, in general, the children have not yet learned much. You can also give homework“show what you have completed or the concert to your parents.”
A separate point of concentration for children is the image of the teacher in the classroom. Neatness in appearance, the correspondence of the choreographer’s clothing must be supported by cleanliness, clarity and literacy in the pronunciation of words, activity in conducting the lesson, as well as participation in game moments as leading images/characters is possible with specific distinguishing objects that focus the attention of children on the teacher.
Rhythmoplasty is the initial form of training, elementary knowledge of dance forms of movement, the first section of teaching choreography. This largely determines the selection of musical works. As a rule, musical excerpts do not yet require an in-depth approach to choreographic forms in lessons, so they should not be overly complex in sound, size and character. These are simple marches with a light texture for students to better assimilate the rhythm. For exercises in a circle, simple polkas with a pronounced rhythm are used, for example, the Czech polka or the Belarusian polka “Yanka”. In circle exercises, the choreographer often uses changes in the tempo of the music, which serves to more accurately perceive the music by students, teaches them to react to an increase in tempo or slowdown, or to a sudden transition to fast or slow motion. When cultivating an aesthetic perception of music and rhythm, you need to select musical excerpts that are consistent with the movements, with the nature of the dance, and bright in sound. The role of the accompanist is irreplaceable. His work should be seen as an integral part of the process of learning the art of dance. The selection is carried out in special musical material, which, unfortunately, is a rarity in music libraries and the task of the accompanist is not only to find the appropriate notes, but also to choose from them exactly what will be useful in the choreography lesson. Sometimes it is worth turning to modern children's musical works, which will have to be selected by ear, but in the end they will always delight children and good mood, conducive to the assimilation of material in the lesson. There is such a concept among choreographers as “square”. This is nothing more than a period consisting of eight or sixteen bars, on the logical completeness of which the dance movements are built. Not all selected waltzes, polkas, and marches can be approved by the choreographer. The musical repertoire must be constantly replenished. Indeed, frequent playing of the same march or waltz during a lesson leads to students performing the exercises mechanically and without emotion. However, too frequent changes of accompaniment distract attention and do not contribute to the assimilation and memorization of movements. Giving a certain tempo, meter and rhythmic pattern, music reveals and emphasizes the characteristic features of the movement, helps its implementation and at the same time teaches children to understand the correspondence between the nature of the music and the nature of the movement
Music, movement and words - these “three pillars” lie at the heart of the rhythmoplastics lesson. To understand the rhythm and memorize many exercises in the classroom, a poetic accompaniment form is used. Examples of such short quatrains can be easily found on the Internet and books on education and outdoor games, matching them to the theme of your classes and using figurative movements for variety. For example:
Let's sit lower and jump up,
The handles are wider and have a lock,
The handles are wider and have a lock,
Look how we can!
Let's turn right and right
And we'll do some stretching...
The task of the first two years of dance training is to coordinate speech with movement and music, teach how to navigate in space and master the basic dance elements. For 3-year-olds, the lesson concentrates on much more dance games, with minimal choreography content - clapping, stomping, turning. At this age, the task is not to teach a child to dance. It is important to teach, first of all, that children repeat after the teacher, navigate in space, and interact with other children. Also, from an early age, it is important for a dancer to develop an ear for music and a sense of rhythm. Games help develop reactions and memorize quickly dance moves and combinations.
At the age of 3, children learn simple etude dances, round dances with repetitions for better memorization, where children can perform movements according to the dance pattern, repeating after the teacher. And already from 4-5 years old, children can be taught to independently perform movements and remember the order of the dance; children at 5 years old can easily adapt to division into groups in dance (by image, gender, tasks). But still, at this age and for staging dances for children in general, it should be taken into account that it is easier for children to remember and understand a dance with a plot and with specific images. In staging and learning etudes, gifted children and group leaders are identified, which helps the choreographer coordinate his actions during the cycle of classes. To improve the productivity of classes, the teacher must actively work with parents, conduct tests and diagnostics of their work, and analyze the results of the entire group and each child.
Sample lesson plan for choreography-rhythmoplasty:
children 3-4 years old:;
- finger games: “Centipede”, “This finger”, “One, two, three”;
- rhythm games fine motor skills: “We are cutting cabbage”, “Woodpecker”, “Bunnies”, “Scarlet Flower”, “Turtle”, “Right and Left”, “Roaring Cow”;
- introductory games for space exploration;
- dance games in a circle: “Middle”, “Bubble”;
- introductory games for getting to know each other;
- dance-games “Haya-Maya”, “Carousel” (running in a circle), “It’s good to swim in the river”;
- march in a circle;
- hand placement and running;
- finger game: "Spider";
- work in a circle “Wheel”, “Kick”;
- stretch (fold);
- exercise “Pli”;
- dance games: “Caterpillars”, “Beetle”, “Light Bulbs”, “Your Majesty”, “Rattles”;
- stretching - fold (“Sandwich”), deflection (“Basket”);
- dance games “Cheerful Puppies”, “Kitty”, “Geese-Swans”; "Lions and Ducks"; "Ostrich";
- stretching - cross twine(“Roots”, “10 Sleepwalkers”);
- theatrical game with sounds, “Tra-ta-ta”, “Connecting howler”;
- Breathing exercises(“Ball”, “Candle”);
- dance-game “Geeks” for the finale of the lesson.
Also, approximate lessons for a given age, master classes and timing can be viewed on the sites listed at the end of the work.
This work was written by me on the basis of the knowledge acquired in advanced training courses “Improving the professional skills of a choreography teacher,” namely, a lecture on developmental psychology /teacher Oksana Viktorovna Khoroshilova/, classes on composition and dance production for children / Olga Viktorovna Ozhegina/, open lesson 1st year of study choreographic song and dance ensemble named after Dunaevsky of the St. Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity / teacher Svetlana Vasilievna Lesnikova /, as well as communication with colleagues and participants in advanced training courses and our own experience of working with children of this age.
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Choreography for children from 3, 4, 5 years old
Choreography classes for kids You can start at 3 years old. Usually, choreography for children 3, 4, 5 years old takes place in a playful form: ground gymnastics for the little ones in the form interesting game. Choreography for children 3-4 years old may be different, it all depends on the teacher. But we recommend not to deviate from classical choreography, since basic exercises ballet is unshakable: hundreds of years have passed, but no better and more productive exercises for health and beauty have been invented. Therefore, children from a very early age, from 3, 4, 5 years old, doing choreography very quickly show results: their knees stop sticking out, their tummies are removed, their posture improves and, what is especially interesting, intelligence appears in their eyes.
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Choreography for adults - 1905
Mon, Wed, Fri 18:00, 19:00, 20:00 (1905 Years, Barricade, Running, Exhibition)
Choreography for adults - Timiryazevskaya
Tue, Thu 20:00 (Dmitrovskaya, Voykovskaya, Timiryazevskaya, Savelovskaya, Sokol)
Choreography for adults - Baumanskaya
Tue, Thu 19:00 (Baumanskaya, Kurskaya, Sokolniki, Krasnoselskaya, Elektrozavodskaya)
Choreography for adults - Korolev
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Choreography for children - Mayakovskaya
Choreography for children - 1905
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Choreography for children - Timiryazevskaya
Tue, Thu 16:15 (3-4 years), 17:00 (5-6 years), 18:00 (6-9 years), 19:00 (7-12 years) (Dmitrovskaya, Voikovskaya, Timiryazevskaya, Savelovskaya , Petrovsko-Razumovskaya, Sokol)
Choreography for children - Baumanskaya
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Choreography for children - Kolomenskaya, Nagatinskaya
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Choreography for children - Otradnoye
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Choreography for children - Domodedovo
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Choreography for children - Korolev
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Choreography for children - Khimki, Kurkino
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Little children love music and try to catch the rhythm and move to the beat. A properly chosen dance school for children over 3 years old will help develop a child’s abilities and creative potential. Here the baby will learn to feel and understand music, he will develop an ear for music and a sense of rhythm. The child will be able to better control his body, he will become more resilient, strong and flexible, and his movements will become clearer. You will notice how your child develops beautiful posture and gait. Don’t forget that dance lessons for children channel children’s vibrant energy in the right direction and teach them to express emotions in dance.
Children's dancing - the harmonious development of your child
Back in Ancient Greece understood the great importance of music for the comprehensive development and upbringing of a child. At the same time, it is important that the classes bring pleasure to the kids - only in this case the lessons will be complete.
Today, dancing for children from 3 years old includes warm-up, optimal muscle load, stretching and, of course, learning the basics of choreography, which are an integral part of any dance style. Thus, interest in the art of dance is formed and the basis for the further development of the child is laid. The acquired skills will help the child feel confident and avoid any complexes in the future. Created in early age the base will help you more quickly and easily master many areas of not only classical, but also modern choreography.
Children's dance teachers at Daria Sagalova's school
Our school employs teachers who love children - and this is always mutual! There is always a pleasant, light and friendly atmosphere in the hall. The kids happily repeat the movements themselves and try to do everything beautifully. The teachers at Daria Sagalova's studio have not only significant experience working with children's audiences, but also significant professional achievements. They regularly take part in major concerts that take place on the stage of Crocus City Hall, the State Kremlin Palace, the Olympic and other halls. In addition, they collaborate with many of our pop stars.
Your child will also have the opportunity to rise to professional heights! In order for students to demonstrate new skills and abilities, we regularly organize reporting concerts. Children whose achievements are truly impressive take part in various competitions and competitions. Over time, they will be able to perform at the capital’s largest venues and work with professional dancers and singers. Everyone has this opportunity!
It is equally important that dance lessons for children 3 years old are an additional opportunity for the child to communicate and socially adapt. The baby will be able to feel like part of a team and make new friends. Classes are held in a playful way, so children always attend them with pleasure - you don’t have to persuade your child, as is often the case with kindergarten.
How to sign up for a trial lesson at Daria Sagalova's school?
If you want to get acquainted with this dance direction and our school as a whole, just sign up for a trial lesson. The first lesson will be free for you! Today you can sign up for dances for children from 3 years old in Podolsk and Moscow. You can leave a request using the form on our website, and our manager will contact you shortly. You can also contact a specialist by phone. We are sure that after the first lesson your child will want to come back to us again and again!
