Teaching Dance Scores, a professional dance training seminar from K-12

Over the last 20 years, Ann Law has continued her career as a dance per- former and dance educator, searching for ways of bringing dance into people's lives. Currently, she is developing a year- long creative dance curriculum at Chattanooga School for the Arts and ! Sciences for K-5th grades. Law is also the founder and artistic director at Bark- ing Legs Theater, a certified Authentic Pilates instructor, and movement in- structor in the Theatre Department at Chattanooga State Technical Community College. In 2001, she received the Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Dance from the state of Tennessee.

Cathie Kasch and Ann Law have developed a curriculum based on the Dance Scores of acclaimed post-modern choreographer/filmmaker, Elaine Summers. Dance Score projects can be successfully incorporated into various kinds of curricula. These experienced dance educators have designed a Professional Development Training Seminar to support teachers as they implement exciting and creative lesson plans as part of their curriculum.

Additionally the Training Seminar will show teachers how the Dance Score projects meet the goals and criteria of the National Dance Standards. This is achieved while students experience the joy of self-expression, develop personal artistry and grow in their understanding of dance.
The objectives of the Professional Development Training Seminar are to:

o Assist the classroom teacher in introducing the art of dance for sgrades K-8.

o Offer Dance Specialists a progressive instrument for training more advanced dance students in improvisation.

o Equip educators in the development of exciting lesson plans that adhere to the National Dance Standards.

Seminars are available in varying lengths and are accompanied by both video and support materials.

contact Ann Law:
CoPac
1307 Dodds Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37404

Contemporary Performing Arts of Chattanooga
barkinglegs@chattanooga.org