SDAOSA Workshops 2011-2012
Sanna Longden
No Child Left On His Or Her Behind: World Dances And Ethnic Music Games For Holiday Celebrations and Classroom Communities
February 4, 2012In this workshop Sanna offers ethnic movement and music activities from a variety of cultures with an emphasis placed on community, curriculum connections, and upcoming holidays. While sharing her love of the world's dances and respect for our planet's peoples, she will focus on traditional music, ethnic styling, cultural background, classroom management, and teaching tips for music, phys ed, classroom, special ed, and others who teach today's K-college students.
Please dress coolly and comfortably for this active and enjoyable session (smooth-soled shoes are recommended rather than heavy sports shoes). Also, Sanna would appreciate it if participants would please avoid wearing scented toiletries and cosmetics to the workshop.
Most of the workshop activities will come from Sanna's series of CDs and DVDs and will be available for purchase at the workshop. Sanna and her husband (and her workshop assistant) Mars look forward to being with their SDAOSA friends and colleagues. And, as residents of the Chicago area, they appreciate being invited to Southern California in February!
Sanna Longden is a world dance teacher and multicultural movement educator from Evanston, Illinois, who teaches in schools and at educator conferences locally, nationally, and internationally. Sanna's specialty is to focus on the "folk," emphasizing ethnic movement, music, styling, and cultural background. Even more, her lessons illustrate how dance and movement activities can encourage community, civility, and cooperative teamwork, as well as creativity, concentration, cultures, and curriculum connections.
A well-known clinician at AOSA, Kodaly, MENC, and other music organization events, Sanna teaches in world music seminars and continuing education courses, presents at physical education conferences and workshops, and conducts in-services for K-12 classroom teachers. She is a longtime workshop presenter for Silver Burdett/Pearson's music division.
Sanna is a contributing author to the Silver Burdett/Pearson Making Music elementary textbook series, and co-author with Wendy Taucher of its book, Making Music with Movement and Dance (Pearson Education, 2006). She is also co-author of Cultures and Styling in Folk Dance, with Phyllis S. Weikart (High/Scope Press, 1998), and has published articles in many folk life and education publications, including The Orff Echo. Currently, she is a regular contributor to Activate!, a music and movement magazine.
Her series of seven instructional world dance DVDs with accompanying CDs are sold worldwide through distributors and on her website, www.FolkStyle.com, and will be available at this workshop. The cassette of her "traditional" dance, "The Matzorena", is also sold on her website, plus in Marian Rose's Step Lively series, and the Rock 'n' Roll Songs that Teach CD (with "Singing in the Rain").
A longtime recreational folk dance leader, Sanna and her husband Mars (who will be assisting her at this workshop) also teach dances of the classical music repertoire to piano teachers and give private ballroom dance lessons to engaged couples and others. They have been members of several exhibition folk dance ensembles and performed in Macedonia and Hungary, taught workshops in Spain and Taiwan and China, and led dancing on cruises up the inside passage of Alaska, along rivers in Russia, and down the Danube River.