Country Dancing

Beat Motion Visuals

Use beat motion visuals to give students a compass of ways to move their bodies. Start with familiar, add unfamiliar (one or two each week!)

Skill Development:

Tuneful: Country dancing songs used in classrooms can be paired with singing goals as the modes and keys are typically accessible.

Beatful: Country dancing exposes macro and micro beat motions as well as locomotor movement.

Artful: Country dancing surrepticiously creates situations where students have to be artful