Dance Lesson Planning Made Easy

Crea Movement™ is a beginning dance curriculum for high school classrooms. It is comprehensive and standardized, and includes dance resources to teach students dance technique, creativity movement, composition and dance history. There are 14 dance units in the dance curriculum are Modern dance: 1) Straight and Curved Shapes, 2) Angular Shapes, 3) Spiral Shapes, 4) Percussive Energy, 5) Sustained Energy, 6) Suspended and Collapsing Energies, and 7) Swinging Energy; and World Dance: 8) Traditional West African, 9) Swing Dance, 10) Afro-Jazz, 11) Ballet, 12) Lyrical Jazz, 13) Hip Hop, and 14) Broadway Jazz.

Our dance curriculum is fully developed and ready to implement with lesson plans, instructional videos, and other dance resources. These resources include dance history, compositional tasks, creative dance, dance rubrics, dance assessments, data trackers, PowerPoints, exit tickets, word walls, content language objectives, and more.

It’s tailored for Beginning dance, but could be scaffolded out for other levels; especially if it’s the first time students are encountering the curriculum.

Whether you wish to improve your dance instruction or bring new energy to your program, Dance for Schools’ dance curriculum will do just that! We’ll help you to improve your use of dance academic and content vocabulary, teach creative dance and personal expression, connect movements and techniques to students’ lives, teach dance history and cultural contexts, write in dance, and help students fall in love with dance as a lifetime activity.