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Excerpt from Folk Dancing The first essential for a successful folk dancing experience lies in the teacher him self. He must -be enthusiastic and sympathetic. He must be tolerant and patient with those who are slow to learn, for occasionally an individual feels he has no sense of rhythm and is discouraged because he does not enjoy the dances. It is the teacher's task to develop, not a sense of rhythm - for every normal human being has that - but the mus cular coordination necessary to express the rhythm. Everyone responds to rhythm, though the response for some persons is only within. There are many ways to help the individual develop a muscular response to rhythm. He may dance with the teacher or with a student who dances well so that wrong patterns do not become fixed. He may be given special instruction, at which time steps may be taken Slowly until the patterns become learned, then gradually increased until the dance is done in the correct tempo. The teacher Should give as much individual instruction as possible at the beginning of the folk dance unit in order that Slow learners may keep up with the group and not become discouraged. Each teacher will develop his own individual technique for presenting a dance, for starting the musician and the dancers. One much used way to Start the dance is to say, Ready with the music - and. Simultaneously with the word and the accompanist and the dancers begin the dance. Inaccuracy in rhythmic response results if dancers are Slow in beginning the first Step because they wait to hear the first notes before starting the dance. Some music is arranged in such a way that there 13 an anacrusis, a pick up note. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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