The diploma work contains ideas for developing dance skills and a prepared and implemented 16-hour program according to which I was teaching some folk dances. The program was meant for a school for children with special needs. Particular contents were put together into a wholeness in the form of a stage performance, at the end the children, attending a project circle, presented themselves to the audience.
In the theoretical part I determined the significance of moving and learning to dance and their influence on the emotional-social development of an individual. By defining the learning to dance I paid more attention to the development of the feeling for rhythm that is extraordinary important in learning to dance. There are also some exercises and specific methods needed in the acquisition of stage acting. In addition I defined the popular tradition and devoted myself more detailed to the children’s popular tradition. At the end of the theoretical part I also defined the particularity of moving in children with special needs and listed some possible adaptions.
The objective of my diploma work was to put together a 16-hour program in which I taught the children about some additional contents of popular tradition. I introduced the program and examples of three different practice units that were more precisely analyzed in the empiric part of my paper. I noted down some adaptions that should be taken in consideration at the transmission of popular tradition to the children with special needs and listed some possibilities to improve the program.
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