The Dance Program offers non-credit community classes in a range of dance traditions taught by highly seasoned dance professionals, and which are free for Harvard students..
Studios enter dance routines into categories of age, style of dance, and group size, and dancers from different studios compete against each other in front of three qualified judges to receive feedback, adjudication scores, and placement awards.
Most of the time, routines will perform in a random order..
Dance often involves movement being taken to an extreme, with, for example, the arms being flung or stretched out, the head lifted back, and the body arched or twisted.
Also, it often involves a special effort or stylization, such as high kicks, leaps, or measured walks..
Dance involves performing, composing and appreciating through the elements of action, dynamics, time, space, relationships and structure..
The goal of dance education is to inform and enable students to appreciate and participate in various aspects of dancing: creating/choreographing, performing, and responding to dance..
Importance of Dance in Education
One of the most important aspects of dance education is helping students develop more holistically.
Dance can also be an expression of culture, adding to people's understanding of their own family history.
Dance can help express, or even develop, cultural attitudes and personal values..
