Ballroom & Latin Dance
Over the past few years, ballroom dance has garnered attention as an extremely useful yet entertaining educational tool that levels the social playing field and carries extremely important life lessons. The current popularity of traditional partner dances started with the 2005 documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, about New York City schoolchildren preparing for ballroom competitions. Shows like Dancing With the Stars, now in its 25th season, are so popular that viewers can create their own Fantasy League as they tune in to episodes.
We have fully documented syllabi for several years that are clearly structured by lesson and dance. Our instructors are all interchangeable as they are trained to speak the same speak and to teach in the exact same manner. No worries about snow days and sickness with our new virtual learning hub!
Beautiful Girls
World Dance Program
We brought World Dance into our mix as we found that strict Hip Hop dance was too challenging for much of the school population. Primary students are still developing the physical coordination necessary and intermediate students are rediscovering their physical coordination and redeveloping the new levels of confidence with social / team interactions prior to moving to high school.
We started introducing a mix of world dances, simplified for the elementary school student audience that maintains physical activity and music recognition, but adds creativity and teamwork to the world of dance.
Each year the dance combinations change but have included Body Percussion, Hand Tutting, Country Line Dance, Choreographed performances to popular songs, Jump style, Basics Hip Hop. New curriculums are developed on an annual basis as new options are discovered and introduced into the program.
World Dance FSD
Line Dance
Due to high demand, our lessons have expanded to include Line Dance and other niche World Dances (a combination of various cultural, choreographed and popular dances).
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness means paying full attention to something. It means slowing down to really notice what you're doing.
Being mindful is the opposite of rushing or multitasking. When you're mindful, you're taking your time. You're focusing in a relaxed, easy way. A new study suggests that mindfulness education — lessons on techniques to calm the mind and body — can reduce the negative effects of stress and increase students' ability to stay engaged, helping them stay on track academically and avoid behaviour problems.
www.Kidshealth.org; www.gse.harvard.edu
