Alvin Ailey Kids
Dancing as a Team
Vocabulary
100
What do the kids do at the Alvin Ailey School?
practice dancing
100
In the Spring, the students have to prepare for something. What is it?
The performance
100
mood
a feeling
200
What dances do they learn?
Ballet, Tap, Capoeira
200
What is the last practice called?
The dress rehearsal
200
perform
to put on a show for others
300
True or False: In Capoeira, the dancers dance in a line, wear tap shoes.
False. They dance in a circle with bare feet and do kicks and jumps.
300
What does the stage manager do?
Teach the students to enter and exit the stage properly
300
remember
not forget
400
Fill in the blank: Dance helps me to ______ myself.
Express
400
How is the performance different from the practice?
The dancers are on a big stage bright lights, and their teachers are not on stage with them.
400
How might the students and parents feel after the performance?
proud
500
How is the mood in tap class different from the mood in ballet?
The music is jazzy and the shoes are noisy
500
Who watches the students perform? (The parents are part of the ______)
The audience
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