The following is a one-day European dance curriculum that I have found to be productive, and that the students enjoyed. I've taught the individual classes on several occasions, and I've done the entire curriculum twice. I often find myself teaching dance in remote areas of Artemisia, to which I can get once or twice a year. Thus, the idea was to give a broad sampling of dance, all the while looking to find people who could lead dance locally.
The following assumes a start time of 10 a.m. However, on one occasion I started it at 9 a.m., and it didn't seem to harm attendance. All that changed was that the lunch break was after the Inns of Court class.
When I first envisioned this curriculum, my thought was to start with Inns of Court, and have Italian at the end. The hope was that a brand-new dancer could work his way up to learning all of the dances by the end of the day.
However, in teaching individual classes, I made a couple of discoveries. First, brand-new dancers who can work their way through the whole curriculum successfully aren't all that common. People who can do so generally have enough dance aptitude that they can start right in with the Italians. More important, people who are "on the bubble" about whether to attend - who generally are beginners - find that a 10 a.m. start time is just enough excuse to make them not attend. On the other hand, serious dance wonks will be up and garbed at 9 or 10 a.m. to learn new dances. The re-arrangement of the classes got positive feedback from students.