Students develop self-confidence, motivation, and the ability to take positive risks, while learning to see a project through from beginning to end.
Students enhance their physical abilities while honing self-control, spatial awareness, and physical expression.
Students develop an artistic voice through building technical skills in dance technique.
Students expand their vocabularies to include dance terminology.
Students build oral and written communication skills, as they share discovered connections, analyze criteria, and explain artistic choices.
Collaboration skills arise from listening, forming and expressing opinions.
Dance class procedures foster an increased ability to share and receive constructive criticism and students are better able to recall and follow instructions.
Problem-solving and critical thinking improves, as students are encouraged to use evidence to support their opinions and suggestions, and recommend artistic solutions based on experience and self-awareness.