Benefits of Dance Training
- Dance helps the student to become more expressive and effective communicators.
- Dance helps establish and enhance self esteem and self expression.
- Dance challenges and extends the human experiences.
- Dance provides a means of expression for thoughts and feelings that goes beyond speaking and writing.
- Dance includes exploration, sensing, concentration, focus, projection, commitment, memory, interpretation, and application of one's abilities, both physical and mental.
- Doctors have found that people who are athletically active as children heal more quickly after surgery and have a higher threshold of pain.
- Dancers and athletes have better peripheral vision.
- Dancers learn the importance of team work and commitment.
- Dance teaches an appreciation for all of the Arts.
- Dance gives a child the opportunity to be involved in a unique, wonderful part of life that no other subject, sport, or experience can offer.