FOUNDATION COURSE FOR BASIC LEVEL DIPLOMA: WORKING WITH DANCE THERAPY
Includes:
- Dance and the growing child
- Mini-discos for children or adults
- Dance-related activities for the 'Quiet Time'
- Six approaches to improvised dance as therapy
- Rhythmic movement – the teaching of Emil Jaques-Dalcroze
- The Laban Method as a preparation for Sport
This is a course for dancers, advanced dance students, dance teachers or health or social work professionals wishing to explore the scientific values involved in using dance and movement as a form of therapy. The Course focusses on working with children but the techniques can also be adapted for older groups.
BEGINNERS' COURSE: SHARING DANCE WITH OTHERS
Includes:
- Exploring and discovering: the joy of sharing movement
- Breaking the ice: ways of encouraging people new to dance
- Creative dance activity and including other art forms
- Six approaches to improvised dance for children or adults
- Setting up and running an After School Dance Club
This is a course for school leavers with an enthusiasm for dance, and who would like to make a start by designing and leading programmes with a 'therapeutic' aim in a variety of settings.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL DIPLOMA COURSE: WORKING WITH ELDERS
A specialist course for Basic Level Diploma holders wishing to work with elderly clients. (Based on the method of Eva Desca Garnet, leading USA authority on the ageing process.)
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL DIPLOMA COURSE: CHILDREN, DANCE AND EDUCATION
A 10-Unit course for Basic Level Diploma holders, based on the expert views of educationists over the past 3 centuries and looking forward to a future rich in dance opportunities for tomorrow's children and young people.