Let's Dance! A Beginner's Guide to Dancing
With Your Dog by Donna Ball
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With Your Dog by Donna Ball
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| Let's Dance! A Beginner's Guide to Dancing With Your Dog Table of Contents Chapter One: Dancing With Dogs?......................................................... What is canine musical freestyle and why is it so much fun? A Little Background Music Sometimes He Leads Four Left Paws and Two Left Feet? Chapter Two: Some Things You’ll Need……………………………… Skills and tools for training freestyle On a Positive Note And Now for the Good Part An Obedience Moment They Call it Drive Chapter Three: Now That We Have Your Attention……………… Training focus and precision Back to Basics Steppin' to the Beat The Hand Target Chapter Four: Finding Your Rhythm……………………………….. Choosing Music Match the Music to your Dog Match the Music to Yourself Match Your Dog and Yourself to the Music Match the Music to Your Audience And Now a Musical Selection On a Serious Note Chapter Five: Put on Your Dancing Shoes!........................................ 15 Basic Moves—an overview Chapter Six: Stepping Out…………………………………………… How to train the 15 basic moves you need for a Freestyle Routine The Heeling moves The Circle Moves The Lateral Moves The Flashy Moves Chapter Seven: Do you Mean I Have to Dance Too?.............................. How to look good enough to dance with your dog—a few simple steps and tricks Close Enough for Jazz One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three It's All in the Attitude Chapter Eight: It’s all About the Costume………………………………. Look like a pro—wherever you go! Play It Safe To Glitz or Not To Glitz Let's Go Shopping Don't Forget Your Dog Chapter Nine: Let’s Dance!.......................................................................... Choreograph your own freestyle routine from start to finish But Where Do I Start? Music, Again A Skit or a Dance? Creating the Dance Moving in Space Chapter Ten: Take Your Show on the Road…………………………… Some ideas for showing off your new dance partner Be Safe Check Your Venue Be Prepared You're On! Afterward: Resources…………………………………………………… |
It’s the most fun you will ever have with your dog!
Canine Musical Freestyle is sweeping the country. You’
ve seen it on television and on the internet. Now
everything you need to know about dancing with your
dog is available in one easy to understand guide.
• Learn 15 Basic Moves and how to turn them into a
freestyle routine that will suit any dog
• Learn how to choose music and costumes
• Learn how to look like a dancer even if you don’t
know a step!
• Learn a whole new way of communicating with
your dog
Includes music lists, training tips and sample
choreography!
Enhance your Therapy Dog visits; create programs for
schools, libraries, and fundraisers. Improve your dog’s
balance, coordination, focus and muscle tone. Explore
the wonderful world of canine musical freestyle, and
make your dog the star he was meant to be!
Canine Musical Freestyle is sweeping the country. You’
ve seen it on television and on the internet. Now
everything you need to know about dancing with your
dog is available in one easy to understand guide.
• Learn 15 Basic Moves and how to turn them into a
freestyle routine that will suit any dog
• Learn how to choose music and costumes
• Learn how to look like a dancer even if you don’t
know a step!
• Learn a whole new way of communicating with
your dog
Includes music lists, training tips and sample
choreography!
Enhance your Therapy Dog visits; create programs for
schools, libraries, and fundraisers. Improve your dog’s
balance, coordination, focus and muscle tone. Explore
the wonderful world of canine musical freestyle, and
make your dog the star he was meant to be!
| Excerpt From Let's Dance Freestyle is about more than just entertaining at parties. You will learn to communicate with your dog in a way that you most likely never thought was possible before, and the bond that is created between the two of you results in a relationship that very few humans ever get to enjoy with a member of another species. The more that you teach your dog, the more he is able to learn, and the more you work with your dog the more you will learn about him. Who wouldn’t want that? Over and over I hear from students, “My dog races to the door when he sees me pick up the boom box. He knows it’s time for freestyle!” And “I don’t care if we never do anything with freestyle except practice it in the basement. My dog loves this so much we’re never going to stop dancing.” Imagine you are a dog. You live in a world where you don’t speak the language, where you never know what’s going to make the person you love most angry with you, and where it seems like almost everything you do is wrong. Then one day, music starts to play. Your person is laughing all the time and wants you to play with her. You get treats for everything you do! You are reminded of the carefree days when you were a puppy, rolling and chasing and spinning and bowing, and the best part is that the person you love most in the world is doing it with you, and you are never wrong. That’s what freestyle is to a dog. |