Push & Pull
Method
In this professional development course, you will discover a teaching approach that is current, challenging, and caters to the safe training of dancers when learning advanced movements in the contemporary dance genre. You will leave with a fully devised practice that you can apply directly to your classes in full, or in sections, depending on your students’ needs.
The Push & Pull method for contemporary dance technique provides a repertoire of skills to learn, combine, and add to in the dance classroom. It focusses on:
Understanding transitions by applying a push and pull framework
Applying texture
Contemporary dance floor work skills
Spiralling standing skills
Push & Pull is comprised of:
4 key sections (Floor Preparations, Slides & Scoots, Middle Ground, Spiral Series)
Buildable skills for building understanding
Floor to standing progression
Creative technique tasking options
Taught over two days, this course is:
Highly practice based
Collaborative
Open to all skill levels
The goal of this professional development course is to provide dance teachers with an updated repertoire of movement and the knowledge of how to teach skills safely, effectively, and creatively. The Push & Pull framework as a teaching approach can be further applied beyond the provided structure as a way of developing dancers’ understanding of transitions, textures and mechanics of breaking down and performing movements, exercises, and choreography.
Learn the repertoire
Learn how to teach it to various age groups
Uncover the limitless creative opportunities for application by you and your students
For dance teachers in schools, the Push & Pull Method is applicable to the Dance Syllabus outcomes for Stage 4, 5 and 6. A full outline of relevance and application can be found here:
in the second half of 2024
Our next course date will be held
Total PD: 10 hours
(inc. of 2 day course + full access to digital resources)
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