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Sanna Longden
World and Ethnic Dance Clinician/Consultant
Evanston, Illinois
Sanna Longden is widely recognized as a leading world dance clinician,
multicultural movement educator, and presenter for local, state, and regional
professional development workshops and sessions. She is a featured
presenter at conferences across the United States and abroad, as well as
serving as a resident artist in North American Schools. In 2012, she received
the National Folk Organization’s Preserving Our Heritage Award for her
significant and lasting contributions to the field of folk arts, and was also
honored by the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education with its Service Recognition
Award for Dance Artist.
Ms. Longden is a longtime member of professional movement and ethnic
dance organizations including the Country Dance and Song Society and
the Folk Dance Council of Chicago. She serves as a board member of the
National Folk Organization and as the associate editor of their NFO News.
She maintains membership in the American Orff-Schulwerk Association
and is often a featured presenter at AOSA sponsored events, as well as for
Kodály and physical education conferences. She continues as an author and
workshop presenter for Pearson with her work as principal movement author
for the new digital general music curriculum, Online Learning Exchange™
Interactive Music powered by Silver Burdett™ with Alfred.
Sanna’s interest in and experience with world cultures has led to her
focus and emphasis on cultural backgrounds for folk dances and ethnic
music games, the relationship of traditional music accompaniments, and
the development of age-appropriate teaching styles and procedures.
Her FolkStyle Productions series of instructional world dance DVDs with
accompanying CDs are available from Pearson Education.
Workshop Titles:
• World Singing Games and Folk
Dances for the Music Classroom
• Folk Dances from the
Seven Continents
• World Dances and Ethnic
Music Games for the Multicultural
Music Classroom
• World Dances for Holiday
Celebrations and Classroom
Communities
• World Dances with
High-Guy Appeal
• Dancing Across the Curriculum