Beginner Staff

Course Overview

This class is geared toward the beginning staff player. The classes focus on technique and understanding how to manipulate the staff effectively so as to create all the basic staff movements.  

Each class is divided into the following class structure:

• 25 min: warm ups, practice, performance, drills, review
• 50 min: new move clinic, individual work, drills, practice
• 5 min: homework assignments, review, cool down

This course provides instruction for the beginner staff dancers. During each class, new concepts will be introduced in the "new move clinic" which are then reinforced during the remainder of the class.

The first two classes focus on the fundamentals of staff movement. The next four classes cover more complex movements of the staff, including passes, conscious body movement, moving the staff around the body, and various ways of creating these moves.