Ballroom and Social Dance

Breakout Description: 

This breakout session will teach you different social and ballroom dance activities for students to experience in pairs or in larger group dances. Come prepared to move and have a good time!  You will be provided with lesson plans and steps to follow. 

This lesson plan will be focusing on the American version of three ballroom dances. The first is Cha-Cha, an exciting dance that holds it's origins in Cuba. The second is Swing, a social dance finding its place as early as 1920 with the rise of jazz music. This class will focus on East Coast Swing. The last is Waltz, a court dance originating from Vienna. There will be a focus on a couple of moves for each dance, as well as how to rotate and move your dance in space to create a more three-dimensional feel to your dance.

Resources:

Videos of Conference Session:

• 5th Position 
• Cha Cha Chase
• Cha Cha Crossover
• Reverse Side of Samba Line Dance
• Samba Line Dance

Presenter:

Lynne Larsen

Lynne Larson received a BFA in Dance from Western Michigan University and a MFA in Dance from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.  She danced professionally with Martita Goshen’s Earthworks, Repertory Dance Theatre, SBDance and Koester & Dancers.  In 2007, she was named Education Director for Repertory Dance Theatre, and in 2014, Artistic Associate as well.  She coordinates all arts-in-education activities for RDT, directs RDT’s annual Summerdance and Winterdance Workshops, High School and Young Dancer Summer Workshops, rehearsal directs numerous pieces in the RDT repertory and assists in artistic long-range planning for the company.  Lynne is an accomplished teacher of students K-professional in creative movement and modern dance.  This is her fourth year presenting at the USBE’s PLS for PE Conference.  Lynne is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in the School of Dance and also teaches Barre Classes at The Dailey Method Barre Studio in Cottonwood Heights, UT.

lynnemlarson@gmail.com

Tyler Orcutt

Tyler was born and raised in Ohio, and began his formal dance in Florida in 2005.  He joined Repertory Dance Theatre in 2012, shortly after receiving his BFA in Modern Dance from the University of South Florida.  He teaches ballroom and social dance and other dance forms in the schools of Utah.