Included in the pack is

• Positions of the feet tracing, coloring and counting exercises
• Basic steps in ballet matching and tracing exercises
• Meanings of basic movements in dancing coloring and tracing exercises
• Beautifully illustrated famous ballet unit studies including short synopsis, crossword, featured ballet step plus activity (coloring, mazes, spot the difference)
• Class phases

The pack includes 31 pages of information, exercises and activities to introduce your younger students to basic ballet theory and start to build their knowledge of ballet.

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Included in the pack are beautiful hand drawn illustrations meticulously designed to be to only technically accurate but also to appeal to students of today. The pack includes information worksheets including illustrations of the body position.  These are also perfect for printing and putting up in the studio, fill in the gap worksheets, and individual colouring sheets.  These sheets include an illustration of a position, plus the name and also include  space to write important points to remember.  These are an amazing teaching tool that really helps to reinforce ballet theory.  Also included are over 40 flashcards.  The flash cards include illustrations of body directions, French terminology and English translations and are fully adaptable.  You can either have the students match the pictures with just the French names or you can also include the English translations.  Only learning a few of the positions at a time?  Just give out the cards you need!  These are great for group work or in workshops.  The ballet body directions activity pack has everything your need to successfully teach the body positons.  The pack can be used in class, as take home activities or as part of camps or workshops.  The sheets are also perfect for popping up in the studio as a reference.

Your students will love the illustrations and the different activities and learning ballet theory will no longer be a struggle or a chore.  Because the body directions pack is delivered to you as  downloadable pdfs you can print as many sheets as you need over and over again!

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Never be stuck for a theory activity again!  I have assembled my most popular and beloved theory worksheets and bundled them all up into one big value pack.  This ballet  theory activity pack contains over 20 pages of worksheets, coloring pages, word searches, flash cards, theory match activities, posters, and classification exercises.  For beginning students there is a beautiful positions of the feet colouring sheet which is also perfect to print out as a poster for your studio, a gorgeous worksheet featuring Nina Ballerina for your youngest students to colour and match the terms to the picture (terms include, plié, tendu, passé/retiré, sauté, first position and second position), plus a fill in the gap activity sheet.  For your inter to advanced students there are a range of activities available. The 45 printable ballet flash cards are perfect for group activities to introduce and revise body positions and directions. (see pictures for terms included). This can be followed up by the directions worksheet.  After that there will be no more excuses for not knowing basic body positions, directions and positions.  The warm up activity sheet is a great conversation starter and helps students identify ‘good’ warm up activities and helps them to devise their own warm-up routine.  Theory match can be used a sheet at a time or given out as a pack and is great for revising commonly used theory terms.  Ballet step classification introduces different ways of classifying ballet steps, provides a classification activity and is a perfect springboard into a choreography workshop.

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