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SONG IDEAS FOR BEGINNER DANCERS

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In the midst of choreographing for your spring recitals and performances? Have a lot of pieces to set with a limited amount of time? Every year we often scramble to find new, exciting and fun music for our younger dancers which are age appropriate, relatable and haven’t been done a million times. Below are some ideas that might help jump-start your creative process and costume selection!
Good luck!
See you in the dance studio,
Jess

Ballet/Lyrical:
Disney Princess Medley by Octave
“Hope” from Cirque
“Fimene“ by Ludovico Eiunaudi
Music from Anastasia
Climb Every Mountain
“If Only” by Dove Cameron
“Champion” by Carrie Underwood
“Let’s go Fly a Kite” from Mary Poppins
Music from Finding Neverland
“Paper Hearts” by Tori Kelly
Soundtrack to Water from Elephants
“Be Somebody” from Leap the movie
“Unstoppable” from Leap the Movie

Jazz:
“I Dream of Jeannie” by Parov Stellar (remix)
“You Know it’s About you” from Leap the movie
“Don’t you Worry Bout a Thing” from Sing
“Technicolor Phrase” from Owl City
“Besame Mucho” from Coco
“Finesse” by Bruno Mars
“Taylor Swift 1989” Medley by the Gardiner Sisters
“Iko Iko” by Club Belugas

Musical Theatre:
Pink Panther Remix
“Copacabana” by Barry Manilow
“Charleston” by Incontrol
“Come Fly with me” by Barry Maniliow
“Soda Pop” by Michael Buble
“Let’s Face the Music and Dance” by Seth MacFarlane
“School of Rock”
“I Won’t grow up” by Mary Martin
“Won’t you Charleston With me?” From The Boyfriend
“Broadway” by Ella Fitzgerald
“Minnie the Moochers Wedding Day” by Bernard Berkhout


Contemporary:
“How Far I’ll go” by Alesia Cara
“Royals” by Vitamin String Quartet
“Tawkami Clan” from Cirque
“Come Fly with Me” by Ruelle
“Carry you” by Ruelle
“Home” by Dustin O’ Halloran
“Love is a Crazy Bird” by Tango Society
“Iceland” by Petit Biscuit

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Author

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford is a native New Yorker and graduate of NYU Steinhardt's Dance Education Master’s Program; with a PK-12 New York State Teaching Certification. Her double-concentration Master’s Degree includes PK-12 pedagogy and dance education within the higher-education discipline. She also holds a BFA in dance performance from the UMASS Amherst 5 College Dance Program where she was a Chancellor's Talent Award recipient. Jess now works extensively with children, adolescents and professionals as choreographer and teacher and conducts national and international master-classes specializing in the genres of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and choreography-composition. Jess’ national and international performance career includes works such as: The National Tour of Guys & Dolls, The European Tour of Grease, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Salute to Dudley Moore at Carnegie Hall, guest-dancer with the World Famous Pontani Sisters and IMPULSE Modern Dance Company. Jess has been a faculty member for the Perichild Program & Peridance Youth Ensemble & taught contemporary and jazz at the historic New Dance Group and 92nd Street Y in NYC. She was Company Director at the historic Steffi Nossen School of Dance/Dance in Education Fund and in 2008 traveled to Uganda where she taught creative-movement to misplaced children. The experience culminated with Jess being selected as a featured instructor at the Queen's Kampala Ballet & Modern Dance School. She has conducted workshops for the cast of LA REVE at the Wynn, Las Vegas and recently taught at the 2011 IDS International Dance Teacher Conference at The Royal Ballet in London, UK. She is also on faculty for the annual Dance Teacher Web Conferences in Las Vegas, NV. Currently, Jess is a faculty member at the D'Valda & Sirico Dance & Music Centre and master teacher & adjudicator for various national and international dance competitions. Recently, she has finished her NYU Master’s thesis research on the choreographic process of technically advanced adolescent dancers and is the creator of “PROJECT C;” a choreography-composition curriculum for the private studio sector. Jess is also faculty member, contributing writer and presenter in the choreography and “how to” teaching segments on the celebrated danceteacherweb.com. For more info, visit her website at www.jrizzo.net.

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