Certification
1. Certified Group Exercise instructors with a strong background in dance and fitness who have a passionate interest in learning the ballroom and Latin dances
2. Professional or amateur ballroom and/or Latin/Argentine Tango dancers who want to learn a new skill- leading a group of dancers in an aerobically oriented fitness class for dance- DanceSport Endurance!
3. Individuals outside of the 2 tracks above who have a very high standard of fitness and who have the desire and potential to become outstanding ballroom and Latin dancers with a focus on the aerobic aspect of dance.
You are welcome to contact us for more information. Our program trains instructors to be both beginner ballroom/Latin teachers and aerobics instructors. Our teachers are held to a very high standard.
Registration before 5 June (full price registration includes DVD pack): $120 (discounts for S & H and college students) Price is $195 on the day of the event.
You will be required to sign an agreement stating that you will not use DSE routines, material, or products without the proper certification and authorization from DanceSport Endurance LLC. DSE is a Trademarked and Copyrighted product. Also, you will have to agree not to teach a format similar to DSE by a different name.
Those instructors who repeat the training pay $100 for the second weekend of training. Only two repeats are allowed. You are required have the DanceSport Endurance DVD pack for the training., and it is included in the full price registration and for the Sport and Health Employee, and college student discounted offer. The DVD is the basic workout, but there are many others. If you review the DVD in the weeks prior to the training, you will be much more prepared to lead a class in the 8 different dances in addition to the warm-up, topline exercise, jump section, abs section, and cool-down.
You may also pay via check if you wish. Send to the following address:
6631 High Valley Lane
Alexandria, VA
22315
Locations: Optional Friday morning: McLean Regency Sport and Health, 1800 Old Meadow Road, McLean VA
Friday evening: Crystal Park Sport and Health 2231 Crystal Drive Arlington, VA 22202
Saturday and Sunday: Crystal Park Sport and Health with finish at McLean Regency Sport and Health
Instructor Training Schedule-
Get a lot of sleep and come fully rested on Saturday morning. Be early- Please be advised if you are late once you will be warned, and if you are late twice you will be disqualified.
FRIDAY EVENING 7-10 pm (Crystal Park Sport and Health)- BE EARLY
700-730 PM Registration, Discussion of Weekend, and Expectations
730-830 PM DSE Workout #1 Moderate Intensity Version; Joined by Fitness bootcamp attendees!
8:40-10 PM Samba - figures and technique for dancing
SATURDAY 9:00-6:00 PM
9:00-9:30 AM Sit-down- Welcome and discussion of Testing
9:30-10:30 AM DSE Workout #1- Beginner Version! Joined by Fitness bootcamp attendees!
10:30-10:40 AM Break
10:40-12:00 AM Viennese Waltz - figures and technique for dancing
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch with Sit-down Discussion- What is DSE; Instructor Checklist; Safety precautions, shoes, stretches, water, heart rate cycle
1:00-1:15 PM Review Samba and Viennese Waltz
1:15-2:00 PM Samba/Viennese Waltz- First leadership experience- each attendee will lead the group to gain experience and have feedback
2:00-2:40 PM Personal feedback sessions to prepare for next segment
2:40- 3:30 PM Salsa - - figures and technique for dancing
3:30- 4:20 PM Tango - figures and technique for dancing
4:20- 5:10 PM Cha Cha - figures and technique for dancing
5:10- 6:00 PM- Salsa and Tango test
SUNDAY- 9:00-6:30 PM
9:00-9:30 AM: How to teach beginners
9:30- 10:30 AM DSE Workout #2 - Intermediate Version
10:30-10:40 AM Break
10:40-11:30 AM Waltz - figures and technique for dancing and teaching
1:00 1:25 PM Quickstep Part One- Quickstep in small spaces
1:25-1:45 PM Quickstep Part Two- Around and across the room
1:45-2:20 PM Jive - figures and technique for dancing
2:30- 3:15 PM Testing in Jive/Quickstep
3:15- 3:35 PM Topline Exercise- technique
3:35-3:55 PM Abs- How To plus let’s get a weekend Ab workout in!
3:55- 4:15 Progression of stretches
4:00- Photos!
4:30-5:30 Break and move to Regency Sport and Health
5:30-6:30 DSE RALLEY!- in the real world! (move to REGENCY SPORT AND HEALTH at 1800 Old Meadow Road, McLean, VA)
8:00-9:00 Optional Dinner Excursion in Tyson’s corner
Apparel:
Trainees are expected to wear professional or semi-professional aerobic wear for the training. Please make sure to invest in some good looking aerobics/dance pants and something decent for a top. For men, we offer black abada capoeira pants at the online DSE store (see top of webpage) for $50. Upon certification and creation of a class, instructors will be expected to wear the DSE or DanceSport Endurance logos when they instruct, which you will want to do anyway because it is such a cool logo! Also, BRING SOMETHING WARM for the training. There will be times in between dances that we will sit and talk, and the room can get cool then, so you will want to have a sweater of some sort, and possibly leg warmers.
Shoes:
You will need to be able to swivel without hurting your knees, so I highly recommend that you have one of the two following types of shoes for teaching DSE:
1. Regular athletic shoes modified at a shoe repair shop to have Suede placed onto the bottoms. If you are in the DC area, one reliable shop for such a service is the Alexandria Shoe Repair and Leather Service in Alexandria at 124 North Fayett Street, Alexandria, VA (703-549-8133). Ask for Barbara and tell her Todd sent you to get the “Suede modification” to your shoes.
2. Dance Sneakers. These won’t provide as much support as modified athletic shoes, but they do provide swivel so will be adequate for the short term.
Training: 2 days of intensive training to become either an Assistant Instructor or an Instructor. You will be trained in ballroom and Latin dancing, aerobic leadership, health and fitness. You will be tested to determine your level of proficiency. All applicants will must work hard and test successfully. Those who test for Assistant Instructor will be able to attend later camps at a discount rate and test again for Instructor level. Each Training Camp will feature new lessons in the various ballroom and latin dances of DanceSport Endurance, so some attendees will want to repeat the camps just for the chance to learn more ballroom, latin, salsa, and Argentine Tango. Depending upon your level of proficiency at teaching DSE, you will achieve one of the following:
Assistant Instructors have completed at least one weekend Instructor Training weekend but are not fully certified to teach or setup classes independently. They may require improved mastery of either the dance or leadership component of instruction and will work with a Senior or Master instructor to become fully certified.
Certified Instructors have successfully completed an Instructor Training weekend, demonstrating sufficient mastery of the DSE routines and presentation ability to start teaching immediately. NOTE: ALL Certified Instructors will receive a “Provisional” rating until they provide a video of themselves teaching a class.
Senior Instructors have taught DSE for several years and can train both Assistant and Certified Instructors.
Master Instructors are certified to train and test all other instructors.
RETURNING INSTRUCTORS
Those Assistant Instructors and Instructors who wish to return to a second camp to increase their skills may do so for $100 two times.
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