Dancer badge complete!

Hi Brownie parents!

You should have seen your girls come home with their dancer badge last Thursday.

What your girls did in order to earn their dancer badge:

• Shared the dance styles they knew with the troop
• Warm-up dancing
• Freeze dance
• Learned to stand, walk and curtsy as a Girl Scout from the 1930s would be expected to do  http://www.wikihow.com/Curtsy
• Learned a dance to "Call Me Maybe" by Janalee (Barre Jazzercise instructor)
• Learned the Macarena  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlzwuFkn88U
• Watched videos and learned about: Alvin Ailey's dance "Cry" created for Judith Jamison (dancer and choreographer); Maria Tallchief (ballerina); Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ); and from one of our Brownies, we learned about Jean Butler, an American Irish step dancer, choreographer and actress.
• Worked in a group to brainstorm a dance group name and song to dance to; voted on those and created a dance together in which each girl contributed moves to the dance

Your girls were motivated and enthusiastic about this badge.  It was very exciting to see them in this process!

If anyone has any videos of the dances that the girls created and are able to successfully send them to me to post on the blog, I'd appreciate it!  I know the file may be too big, but perhaps we can arrange a time to get together to get the video onto my computer.  Thanks!

Also, note that many of the badges your girls earn are iron-ons.  We have learned that many of them fall off shortly after, so it is recommended that a quick stitch to go around the badge after ironing it will help secure the badge to the sash.

Thanks for all of your support!  We have a great bunch of Brownies!