Benefits of Dance

Below are some of the benefits that dance training can offer you or your child:

• Muscle control and coordination; an awareness, strengthening, and respect of the physical body
  
  
• Exercise
  
  
• Grace
  
  
• Creative expression
  
  
• Musicality and the development of an appreciation for classical and contemporary music
  
  
• Poise, posture, presentation; useful in all areas of life
  
  
• Self-achievement , self-awareness, self-esteem
  
  
• Discipline, a strong work-ethic, time management skills, transfers to academic achievement and career success
  
  
• Focus, concentration, determination
  
  
• Intellectually challenging; promotes problem-solving, quick-thinking, reasoning skills
  
  
• French vocabulary and terminology
  
  
• Promotes respect for teachers, peers, individualism as well as team work
  
  
• Development of artistry in class, rehearsals, and performances
  
  
• Appreciation for the history and tradition of dance and music, exposure to world cultures, universality of dance
  
  
• Appreciation for the Arts

All these wonderful life skills are achievable not only for the student intent on a professional career in dance, but also for the student who studies dance for the sheer joy of movement.