Teaching syllabus
Basic compulsory course
BJP Basic comprehensive courses
BJP Foundation Course has integrated three main dancing forms, including Ballet, Jazz and Dance Performance. It is based on the CSTD examination content and is divided into different levels according to children's age and physical development level.
· Suitable for children over 4 years old and teenagers.
Course Objectives:
To help children scientifically and effectively lay the foundation of three dancing elements: posture, rhythm and performance
Students can participate in the annual dance grade examination, and obtain the Commonwealth Dance Association Certificate of Australia, which is a global certificate.
Help your child apply for scholarships and targeted colleges
Duckling Dance Beginner Course (3-4 years old)
The duckling dance beginner course is the optimum course of BG Dance. This course takes American children's music fun lesson as the main teaching scheme, uses the combination of dance, music and physical training, aims at promoting the common development of children's fine big movement, through elementary dance movements and skills training, and combined with cultivation of music rhythm and props assisted exercises, so as to help children with their full development in strength, flexibility, agility and coordination.
Around the age of three, children begin to enter a sensitive period, which is also a critical period to build their self-esteem and confidence. The duckling class of BG Dance provides multi-module and multi-focus training methods for children of this age group, which can be divided into the following processes:
• Warm Up (Music helps children warm up, enhance their sense of belonging and prevent them from sports injuries）
• Pointe and Hips Warm Up （Training children's big and fine dancing movement）
• Flexibility and Strength （Training of flexibility and muscle strength ）
• Ballet Basic （Ballet Basic）
• Jazz Basic （ Jazz Basic）
• Free Dance （Performance of Free Dance）
• Cool Down （Course review and relaxation sessions）
Suitable for children around age of three.
Advanced course
PBT Progressing Ballet Course
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT for short).
Progressing Ballet Techniques (PBT) is a set of world-renowned ballet training aids. PBT uses balls and elastic belts as auxiliary training tools, combined with muscle memory training method, to help students understand how to use muscle ability correctly, and to help students reach the best state in classical ballet. The course is divided into three levels: Sub Junior & Junior, Senior and Advanced.
It applies to students aged 5 and above who aim at improving the technique of ballet and shaping beautiful posture.
Course Objectives:
Help children understand and recognize their body posture and muscle patterns.
Learn the correct methods of muscle exertion and posture to prevent injury caused by wrong training methods, and to present perfect ballet posture.
Shape the graceful body of a ballet dancer.
Blanket skills
The basic dance course mainly focuses on dance skills, including soft opening training and jump and turn skill. On the basis of comprehensive courses, the students' technical skills will be further improved to serve ballet and Jazz. Among them, the important thing is the opening degree and strength, as well as the training of the jump, to improve the students' physical quality and ability. There are four levels: Primary, Intermediate Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced, and the courses are selected according to the student's level.
Suitable for children over 6 years old, teenagers and adults
Course Objectives:
Comprehensive compulsory courses, improve the child's soft opening and muscle strength from the foundation.
It strengthens the sensitivity, coordination and flexibility of dance performance,
so as to lay a solid foundation for the future stage performance, and improve the technical difficulty.
Personalized dance elective courses
With the educational tenet of "Consolidating the foundation of dance and encouraging individualized development", BG Dance encourages individualized development of children on the basis of compulsory courses and offers the following elective courses:
1. CFD Chinese Folk Dance
Chinese Folk Dance takes "Chinese Folk Dance Grade Examination" as the teaching material to cultivate students' comprehensive stage performance ability and creativity so that students can gradually move from class to dance stage. Through the practice and play of the key thematic elements of the play, the students will master the basic quality, technique and the rehearsal process of the play, and by the end of each academic year, they will perform a complete national folk dancing play. The examiners themselves teach the class, and students can participate in grade testing, performances and international competitions every year.
Suitable for children over 5 years old, teenagers and adults
Course Objectives:
Cultivate the children's comprehensive ability of expression, learn about China's long national culture through drama,
Students can participate in the annual dance grade examination, and obtain the certificate of Chinese National Folk Dance Grade Examination, which is a global certificate.
Personalized dance play for middle-grade children.
2. Dramatic Dance
Dramatic Dance courses take specific plays as the story background, with the expression of dance, shape different story characters, to develop children's understanding and expression ability. Representative plays are "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker", etc.
Suitable for children over 6 years old
3. Hip-hop
The rich and colourful street culture and music style has contributed to the individualized and free dance style of Hip-hop. The Hip-hop course of BG Dance has used the form of new school music to cultivate students' free individualized dance development and sense of music rhythm and can establish students' confidence and self-expression ability.
Suitable for children over 5 years old, teenagers and adults
5. Latin
BG Dance's Latin courses mainly teach international standard Latin Dance, also referred to as sports dance, which is divided into five kinds of dances like Rumba, Cha-Cha, Cowboy, Samba and Bullfight. One dance for each semester is taught. Through the passionate Samba, lively Cha-Cha, graceful Rumba, strong Bullfight and funny Cowboy, the students will be shaped to embrace diversified performing styles and standard and strict professional dance spirit.
Suitable for children over 5 years old, teenagers and adults