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Why We Dance
Dance forms through the ages tell the stories of a society's culture. What's next? Ritual dances, sacred dances, storytelling dances, social dances, and…
Jun 18
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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May 2025
S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous - A Big Reveal
Dancing Gershwin and a Goddess in the Beforetimes. S’amazing what the universe sometimes offers up. A dusty cardboard box ignored for decades, seven…
May 24
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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April 2025
Vintage "Maypole Dances" Gift Book
of dances and sheet music from the estate of the late great dance educator Joan Carr Shimer is shared here for you and your school. When Joan was…
Apr 26
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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March 2025
Come Dance with Us This Summer
Everyone is welcome as we travel through history with dance at Spacial Dynamics Institute's summer conference, Dancing Through the Ages. Valerie Baadh…
Mar 31
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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October 2024
Space is Human
a classic article by British poet and movement educator Paul Matthews. In 1921 Fritz von Bothmer was asked by Rudolf Steiner to develop the gymnastic…
Oct 15, 2024
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August 2024
3 Historic Dances For Your Classroom and Your Stage
to inspire new possibilities for your school year
Aug 31, 2024
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - An Ancient Ritual
traditional for September or mid-winter, its mysteries move us even today
Aug 30, 2024
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Longsword Dances - Some of the Oldest Dances in History
and why your students love dancing them
Aug 30, 2024
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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Bransles - Playful Medieval Dances Make History Come Alive in the Classroom
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Aug 29, 2024
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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October 2022
Lazy Lout - A favorite imaginative tag game for 9 year olds +
An engrossing scenario sets a vibrant encounter that is more than Blob Tag with this rediscovered childhood favorite. Found in a English translation of…
Oct 25, 2022
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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Lazy Lout - A favorite imaginative tag game for 9 year olds +
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August 2022
A Movement Mentor's Back to School Toolkit
Curriculum guide, lesson planning tool, print resources for teaching movement, games, and physical education in Waldorf and other independent school…
Aug 15, 2022
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Valerie Baadh Garrett
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"It's All Downhill From Here"
Reflections on dancer and master teacher Aaron Osborne at the height of his powers in the heyday of modern dance in San Francisco, by movement artist…
Aug 1, 2022
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