Get Certified! How To Train For Your DVIDA Professional Examinations

Available in DVD only
Produced by Dance Vision 2005
This DVD is 2 hours and 40 minutes and the Guidebook is 50 pages.

Available for the first time! Never has there been so much information written in preparing you for your professional certification! Certification programs are designed to increase your dance knowledge and worth in a realistic time frame.

Instructors: Diane Jarmolow assisted by Alison Hurwitz & Eldon Bryce.
Diane Jarmolow is a DVIDA National Examiner and developer of the new, highly acclaimed DVIDA professional certification examination system

Together, this guidebook and visual media (DVD) will take the mystery out of the exam process. You may read this guidebook or watch the visual media first, whichever you prefer. Both the guidebook and the visual media use the American Style Bronze dances as their examples. However, the exams for the International Style and higher-level American Styles, use the same format.

The Guidebook provides a complete written guide to ProDVIDA certification exams. You will find details on exam logistics and procedures, many of which are not discussed in the visual media. This guidebook also documents key information from the visual media, such as an explanation of each of the dance elements, a list of what will be required on your exam, and a list of the specific teaching questions you will be asked on your exams.

The visual media (DVD) provides an overview of the exam process. You will see detailed demonstrations of each dance element as well as many examples of exam questions correctly answered and demonstrated. The visual media also contains two mock one dance exams from beginning to end: an American Rhythm Junior Associate Rumba exam and an American Smooth Associate Waltz exam. Watching these exams being demonstrated will demystify what your own exam may be like.

1) Introduction to the DVIDA Certification Examination

2) Part A – The Dancing
a) Criteria & Demonstration
b) Dancing the Solo Amalgamation

3) Part B – The Theory
a) An Introduction to the Elements
b) Foot Positions
c) Alignment
d) Amount of Turn
e) Rise & Fall
f) Footwork
g) Timing
h) Sway
i) CBM (Contra Body Movement)
j) Leads
k) Summary

4) Part C – The Teaching Questions

5) Part D – The Overall Presentation

6) Mock One Dance Examinations
a) Junior Associate American Style Rumba
b) Associate American Style Waltz

Music Credits
Fabuloso American Style Rhythm & Smooth Volume II Item #CD208
Foxtrot - Track 4 “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”
Tango – Track 3 “Tango Jack”
Cha Cha – Track 6 “Cha Cha Latino”
V. Waltz – Track 5 “My Favorite Things”
Rumba – Track 9 “Mi Buen Amor”
Waltz – Track 1 “A Tender Heart”

Fabuloso American Style Rhythm Volume II Item #CD207
WC Swing – Track 14 “Blue Monday”
EC Swing – Track 13 “Man, I Feel Like a Woman”

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