learn english through dance

D' y' wanna dance - and learn some English?



Learning English Through Dance - YouTube



"Boots" Kids learning English through dance - YouTube

Here are a couple of presentations:
Dancing - Teaching English through Body Movement by Ninel Gasparyan on Prezi
Dance in the ESL Classroom

Here's a school which offers English Immersion Through Dance!!
Dance Another World

Here's an interview with a committed teacher:
Dance: An Inspiration for Language in the ESL Classroom

And here's a piece from a 'kinesthetic' teacher:
Dancing English Teacher | Kinesthetic learning and embodied knowledge

This is a British Council guide to dance:
LearnEnglish | British Council | A Quick Guide to Dance

There are some very interesting contemporary dance companies out there.

Here is one:
Home | New DV8

But is it dance?



"John" Lloyd Newson (UK/AU) /DV8 Physical Theatre (UK) - YouTube

This is now playing:
DV8 Physical Theatre's show at West Yorkshire Playhouse asks frank questions about sex and love (From York Press)
"John", de la compañía británica DV8, abre en Madrid el 38 Festival de Otoño - ABC.es - Noticias Agencias

Here are another couple of pieces:



The Cost of Living DVD 180 - YouTube



DV8 - Can We Talk About This trailer - YouTube



Enter Achilles - YouTube

This is another innovative group:
www.balletboyz.com

But not everyone likes them:
Ballet Boyz, Sadler’s Well, review: 'hellishly tedious' - Telegraph
BalletBoyz: Young Men review – far too many sorrowful cradlings | Stage | The Guardian



BalletBoys - ‘The Murmering’ by Alexander Whitley - photo Tristram Kenton

This is what they're doing now:
BalletBoyz theTALENT — Productions — Royal Opera House

What does this say?



Akram Khan - Abide With Me (2012 London Olympics) from CAP UCLA on Vimeo.

Here is a documentary on Akram Khan - showing his work with flamenco dancer Israel Galvan



1/2 Akram Khan - What Do Artists Do All Day ? - YouTube

This is not the Boshoi:



Matthew Bourne in his original ‘Swan Lake’
It has been an incredible hit:
Swan Lake (Bourne) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swan Lake [DVD] [2012]: Amazon.co.uk: Matthew Bourne: DVD & Blu-ray
How we made Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake | Stage | The Guardian
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, review: 'witty, menacing, lyrical and wild' - Telegraph
Review: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at Birmingham Hippodrome - Richard Edmonds - Birmingham Post



Classical Ballet - Matthew Bourne - Swan Lake (1996) - part I - YouTube
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake 2010 (Official Show Footage and interviews) - YouTube

This Romeo and Juliette was not 'traditionally Russian' either:



Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet -- Tybalt-Mercutio-Romeo fight scene (Macmillan) - YouTube
Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



"Balcony Scene" from Act II of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn) - YouTube

But the Americans probably do it the best.

Plus some great dialogue:



West Side Story-America - YouTube

There are plenty of 'issues' around dance:
Jay Doubleyou: racial issues
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