Dance & Auxiliary Resources

Great Resources for Dance, Color Guard, and Band Directors

Starting a Team

40 pages that includes Constitution Writing, Booster Club By-Laws, New Recruits, See "The Big Picture", New Team Selections, Sample Tryout Scoresheets, New Member Crash Course, Officer Tryouts Revisited, Officer Tryout Forms, From the Trenches (advice from experienced directors), Parents Pointers.

Team Building

7 pages that includes Team Building Games and Challenge Day Application.

Technique

17 pages that includes Dance Terminology, Guard Terminology, Twirling Terminology, Teaching Technique to your Guard, Movement for Color Guard, Top Ten Technique Tips, Pilates Conditioning, The Discipline of Technique, Dance Fundamentals -basic to advanced skills, and Modern Dance Improvisations.

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