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Celebrating our 23rd year serving the Orlando Community
The Dance Teacher believes that children can gain
great benefits as well as great pleasure from good dance training, whether or
not a career is the goal.
Why
Dance?
Dance involves and
challenges the mind as well as the entire body. An exhilarating sense of
achievement can be felt as control of the body is attained.
Dance training develops
mental alertness, and a strong, flexible, well-coordinated body. It enhances the education process for those
that are kinesthetic learners which can be of great benefit in increasing
academic focus.
Dance can encourage self
confidence and musical awareness.
Why the
Dance Teacher?
Our classes work towards these
beliefs.
We believe in Education.
Our advanced programs are tailored to permit
students to be involved in both school and dance activities. We work with
your schedule to assure your child gains the benefits of dance and thus enhances their educational process.
Our studio is conveniently
located in the center of Orlando/Conway area with easy access from the 408.
Call
The Dance Teacher at 407-273-9860 today!
SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY
“To
sing and dance well is to be well educated.”
-Plato
The Dance Teacher believes that children can gain great
benefits as well as great pleasure from good dance training, whether or not a
career is the goal.
Dance involves and challenges the mind as well as the entire body. An exhilarating sense of achievement can be
felt as control of the body is attained.
Dance training develops mental alertness,
and a strong, flexible, well-coordinated body. It can encourage self confidence and
musical awareness. Our classes work
towards these beliefs.
Why do kids need a ballet
background if they want to go on to other styles of dance?
The most important reason
is that ballet gives the basics needed for all styles of dance. The counting of
music, alignment and basic terminology of ballet tends to sneak into jazz and
modern and is essential for a student’s success. In as much as tap
merely requires quick loose ankles, the ballet fundamentals permits a tap
dancer to have better posture, stronger phrasing of rhythms, and less prone
to injury from proper placement and alignment. Technique for turning becomes
vital as one advances tap levels too.
Always remember that
everyone can move; everyone can dance. The key is to learn to move to an instructor’s
counts and follow the instructor’s steps.
Students without a ballet
background often become quickly frustrated in a traditional dance class. Not
knowing how to breathe like a dancer, jump like and dancer, and hold
one’s body like a dancer results in overtiring very quickly. Another
obstacle becomes the lack of discipline. Ballet training in the beginning can
be VERY boring to bright, active children – especially in today’s
society.
Children and parents
intellectually understand the concepts of barre technique, but prefer to
participate/observe the fast pace of doing something once and going on. Very
seldom does our current society have a child repeat skills over and over
until they become second nature – or muscle memory takes over.
Ballet is an art
discipline that does require repetition, which the novice parent to the art
often does not understand. Anything not mastered immediately to smart
children can become frustrating and then is labeled “BORING”.
This is when kids need encouragement to follow through and stick with the
learning process.
It is our hope by
introducing other fundamental styles of modern and jazz into class that
students will gain a greater understanding and appreciation, which in turn
translates into a dedication to the art form. Always remember that the
confidence developed once skills are mastered and the student is comfortable
presenting these steps/skills can carry over into other aspects of a
child’ life. |