July 8 - 11, 2024
In-Person
DEL Dance for Early Childhood (In-Person)
Time: 10 am - 4 pm ET
Pricing: $450 until June 16 / $500 after
Location: In-Person at the 92nd Street Y, New York (NYC)
Instructors:
Deborah Damast, MA and Guests
DEL’s Dance for Early Childhood Curriculum encourages learning through play, providing a stimulating, multi-sensory, and nurturing community for diverse young learners to discover their innate movement capacity.
Participants in this course will gain experience in creating developmentally appropriate dance lessons and activities for children ages 3-7 years old. Interactive and participatory, this course will cover the following topics: developmentally appropriate lessons and content for early childhood, developmental patterns and the sensory system, games and short activities, basics of early childhood dance lesson planning, applied LMA vocabulary as a springboard for dance learning and lesson plan organization, strategies for effective teaching, and collaborative lesson planning with peers.
Must register by Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
Course scholarships and discounts are available! Learn more about scholarship opportunities here.
Photo by Danica Paulos.
Meet Your Instructors
Deborah Damast
Deborah Damast (BFA Dance, SUNY Purchase, MA Dance Education, NYU, DEL Certificate) is Associate Professor and Program Director of Dance Education at NYU Steinhardt where in addition to teaching, she is Artistic Director of concerts, Kaleidoscope Dancers, and the Uganda study abroad program. Deborah is the Past-President of the New York...