Motor Development:

Sequencing for Beginning Folk Dance, Levels I, ll, and ill

SINGLE MOVEMENTS
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FIRST GRADE:
RECURRING 1-BEAT MOVEMENTS
Bouncing knees, heels, or toes
Jumping (two feet to two feet)
Hopping (one foot to the same foot)
Stamping (touching one heel forcefully to the floor)
ALTERNATING 1-BEAT MOVEMENTS
Rocking (side to side, or front to back)
Walking, marching, or scissoring legs
Running

~LEVELl

SEQUENCED MOVEMENT

SECOND GRADE:

RECURRING 2-BEAT NONLOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS

Up, Touch, Up, Touch
Heel, Toe, Heel, Toe
THREE RECURRING 1-BEAT NONLOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS
PLUS ONE LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENT
Touch, Touch, Touch, Step
THREE ALTERNATING 1-BEAT LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS
PLUS ONE NONLOCOMOTOR MOVEMENT
In, In, In, Kick or Out, Out, Out, Touch
Forward, Forward, Forward, Heel

~LEVEL II

RECURRING 2-BEAT LOCOMOTOR SIDEWARD MOVEMENTS

Side, Close or Side, Back or Side, Cross
ALTERNATING 2-BEAT SEQUENCES
(combination of locomotor and nonlocomotor)
Step, Kick or Kick, Step
Step, Hop or Hop, Step
Step, Heel or Heel, Step
TWO DIFFERENT 2-BEAT SEQUENCES
PERFORMED ONE TIME
Side, Touch, In, Touch or Side, Touch, In, Hook or
Side, Lift, Side, Stamp

THIRD/ FOURTH GRADE:

UNEVEN TIMING OF MOVEMENT
Touch, Touch, Step/ Step, Step (one divided beat in 4 beats)
Fwd, 2, 3, 4; Fwd, Rest, Fwd, Rest (use of rest in 8 beats)
RECURRING 4-BEAT SEQUENCES (2-beat plus different 2-beat)
Step, Kick, Step, Touch
Side, Back, Side, Cross
In, Clap, Out, Clap
ALTERNATING 4-BEAT SEQUENCES (2-beat plus different 2-beat)
Up, Touch, Up, Step or Kick, Touch, Kick, Step
Side, Back, Side, Kick or Side, Back, Side, Hop
Side, Close, Side, Touch
COMPLEX USE OF SPACE
Forward, Forward, Forward, Turn; Backward, 2, 3, 4

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Teaching Movement & Dance

~LEVEL m