PHILOSOPHY
The Little Dance Project's goal is to provide your child with a positive and fun learning experience while nurturing a lifetime of dance appreciation. Each class is artfully designed with a balance of emphasizing each child's strengths and challenging them to try new skills.
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A love of dance is fostered through creative instruction and a constant change of themes for each class. Your little dancer will discover joy and freedom in movement, improve sensory awareness, coordination, body awareness, spatial relations and social skills.
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To encourage performance techniques, the preschool classes hold a recital complete with costumes at your child's school for parents and friends. The casual setting rewards dancers for their hard work all year without the stresses of a “big” stage and bright lights.
CURRICULUM
The Little Dance Project's classes brighten a child's school day by waking the brain and body up with upbeat and educational dance movement.
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Every class is designed to build critical and creative thinking skills, enhance self-expression and introduce social-emotional skills such as patience, taking turns, risk taking and sharing. No class is the same and every week there is a new theme of focus, such as partnering, counting, fairy tales, superheroes, balance, and more! To enhance this thematic experience each child will have the opportunity to explore multi-sensory props to bring their imagination to life.
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While each class is centered around creativity and fun, the little dancers will be taught life skills! Every class has an objective of teaching one of the below skills:​
Determination
Motivation
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Peer Relations
Team Work
Spatial Awareness
Resilience
Balance
Patience
Encouraging and Supporting Peers
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Our teachers lead the class by encouraging the dancers to not only learn new dance choreography but move in new ways. For example, when teaching our students a "plié", we explain that they are bending up and down, standing tall, squeezing their tummy muscles, strengthening their knees to jump higher, and lengthening their hamstrings to run faster!
