The Importance of Dance/Movement in Education

Swaha Mitra

Learning, thought, creativity, and intelligence don’t just come from the brain alone, but from the entire body.  Dance or Movement combinations increase memory, order, and sequencing skills. Creating dances also increases self-esteem which is so vital to learning. There are a numerous reasons why dance is important to the health and development of children. Above all, children get to move. Dance burns calories, strengthens muscles, improves balance, increases flexibility, and provides a better gut condition. Dance has also been proven to extend cognitive development. The importance of dance or movement is that it creates a connection between the body and the mind.

 Utilizing dance in academics also helps children develop skills that are necessary for learning like creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. Through the creative process, students are encouraged to use their imagination, collaborate with their peers to solve problems, and find out multiple solutions to challenges.

              

Dance/Movement is an important and fundamental inclusion within education. Dance is quite just how of exercising and entertainment, it's how of communicating. As new-borns, before we even talk, we are ready to dance. Yes, it'd just be an unsteady bum wiggle, but the instinct is there nonetheless! Play music and toddlers will naturally groove. So if a toddler can learn movement patterns as easily as they will learn a language, why don’t we encourage this more? 

Dance to develop skills. Through dance, children can gain a mess of important developments; sensory and spatial awareness, coordination, concentration and mobility. But quite this, we use it to precise emotions, increase confidence or maybe just to form ourselves feel better! Schools can put an out sized specialize in academic subjects; do not forget about the physical! We like it once we can bring dance in to other core curriculum subjects, to cater for all ways of learning. Dance to make Dance are often a challenging both physically and academically. Dance engages the artistic processes of making, performing and important analysis. this needs a huge number of skills like the power to read symbols, implement critical thinking, nonverbal reasoning and expression, create and exchange ideas, add collaboration with others, and understand different culture and societies. We encourage this analysis and important thinking altogether of our lessons, asking children questions like - “can you explain how you're moving?” “Why did you wish your classmates dance?” “What would you are doing to form it even better?” Dance to alleviate stress Basic dance skills can affect improvement and progress altogether areas of lifestyle too, so whether it's for a dance career to for your general well-being, dance is vital . Sometimes of increased stress, i.e school exams, we believe it's vital for youngsters to continue, if not increase, their dance classes and amount of your time moving. this provides children an opportunity to process their work, also as take a well deserved break. Dance to focus Now, I can understand if you think that that we could also be somewhat biased (and we are) but luckily, the research backs us up! Arts research has shown that students who study dance are more self-motivated, disciplined and focused. They’re more expressive in their communication of emotions, thoughts and feelings. They’re ready to critically analyze their own work and therefore the work of others, also as being more creative and imaginative. Dance for the longer term at a time when children spend their time more and more ahead of a computer or television, the escape Dance offers has never been more important. Hopefully, at some point Dance are going to be viewed as a part of the bedrock of a broad and balanced education, with all children exposed to the richness that an art-based education offers. Encouraging creative ambition prepares for a culture relevant future. Instilling this in children now forges the trail for our future generations. it's a school’s job to demonstrate what the humanities offers in terms of development, challenge and a full education, which allows for more versatile career paths. We would wish to take this chance to thank all our dancing schools for believing in our Dance Stables ethos, and giving their children the prospect to grow and learn through dance.