Kizomba for Teachers: How to Teach (Kizomba - for Teachers and Pupils)

This is a one of a kind book about Kizomba. It presents, for the first time ever, a method of teaching Kizomba to absolute beginners and intermediate students. In other words, the book will teach you HOW to teach, with clear examples of WHAT to teach. This book will be of great help to any intermediate or advanced Kizomba dancer who wishes to start teaching. The methodology, and exercises, and the exact order to teach them in a class, with key-points and everything, will be covered in this book: warm-up specially made for Kizomba, how to develop dance abilities, famous patterns and special exercises for improvisation, along with a clear step-by-step plan for the first 10 lessons when opening a Kizomba class. For more information do consult the other dance related materials published by Magisteria and visit the Bucharest Social Dance on YouTube channel. Preface - 7 - Parts of the class - 8 - Warm-up - 11 - Absolute beginners - 11 - Exercise 1: Promenade - 12 - Exercise 2: Side to side - 15 - Exercise 3: Perpendicular - 18 - Exercise 4: Face to face - 22 - Intermediate level - 24 - Exercise 5: Double Faced – part 1 - 25 - Exercise 5: Double Faced – part 2 - 28 - Exercise 6: Crossed stepping - 31 - Exercise 7: Switching places - 34 - Exercise 8: Stopping - 37 - Abilities - 43 - Absolute beginners - 43 - Exercise 1: Weight transfer - 44 - Exercise 2: One step impulse - 47 - Exercise 3: Leg extension - 48 - Exercise 4: Inclinations - 49 - Intermediate level - 51 - Exercise 5: The three basic steps - 52 - Exercise 6: Walking systems - 58 - Exercise 7: Leg raise - 63 - Exercise 8: Three steps impulse - 67 - Patterns - 71 - Absolute beginners - 71 - Exercise 1: Front eights - 72 - Exercise 2: Half moon - 74 - Exercise 3: Rocking step - 76 - Exercise 4: Cha-cha - 78 - Intermediate level - 80 - Exercise 5: Woman Saida - 81 - Exercise 6: Man Saida - 83 - Exercise 7: Woman Saida and Front Eights - 87 - Exercise 8: Woman Saida and Half Moon - 87 - Other patterns - 88 - Improvisation - 91 - Exercise 1: Mirroring Face to Face - 92 - Exercise 2: Mirroring Doble Face - 94 - Exercises 3 - 5: The improvisation frame - 96 - Other variations - 114 - Lesson Plan - 117 - Lesson 1 - 117 - Lesson 2 - 118 - Lesson 3 - 118 - Lesson 4 - 119 - Lesson 5 - 119 - Lesson 6 - 120 - Lesson 7 - 120 - Lesson 8 - 121 - Lesson 9 - 121 - Lesson 10 - 122 - Conclusion - 124 - Read more