Dance for kids is an excellent way to improve their coordination, balance, and motor skills without the risk of injury that comes from playing sports.
For children, it's a more active way to have fun outdoors and stay physically fit..
Dance for kids is an excellent way to improve their coordination, balance, and motor skills without the risk of injury that comes from playing sports.
For children, it's a more active way to have fun outdoors and stay physically fit..
Kids can start dancing as early as age two and it has its benefits.
In alignment with developmental stages, toddler dance classes take off beginning age three.
At that time, kids are receptive to social cues, the concept of play, movement, and cognitive thinking skills.
When applied to dance, nothing's more fun.
Published: October 1, 2018 Jada isn’t thrilled to leave her old life in Philadelphia behind.
Not only is she saying goodbye to her school and her friends, she also has to leave her dance team.
Jada lives for ballet, and thankfully, she finds a way to keep dancing at Ms.
Marianne’s Academy of Dance.
But when an injury threatens to sideline Jada befo.
Published: March 1, 2014 Marissa has always loved dancing.
But lately, she feels clumsy and awkward when she dances, and she feels bigger and taller than the other girls.
She doesn’t even bother trying out for the Rose Fairy ballet.
But someone else thinks Marissa has what it takes to play the Rose Fairy!
Published: August 1, 2018 A few months into the school year, Annabelle Louis is starting to find her place at McManus Middle School.
But Annabelle’s therapist, Dr.
Varma, still thinks there’s room for improvement in Annabelle’s social life, especially since Mom will be leaving soon for an overseas assignment.
Knowing there’s a school dance coming u.
Published: May 5, 2020 Ten-year-old Katarina is a New York City girl through and through, but the buzz of the city drives her to feel that she is meant for more than her ordinary day to day routine.
Her big dream.
To become a prima ballerina.
With the help of a few new friends, Katarina finally puts on her first pair of ballet shoes and she’s more .
Published: April 12, 2016 All Dillon wants is to be a real dancer.
And if he wins a summer scholarship at Dance-Splosion, he’s on his way.
The problem.
His dad wants him to play football.
And Dillon’s freestyle crew, the Dizzee Freekz, says that dance studios are for sellouts.
His friends want Dillon to kill it at the audition—so he can turn around.
Published: June 1, 2006 Ten-year-old Poppy wants nothing more than to advance to the next ballet grade, but when a new girl, Rose, arrives in class and causes her to mess up during class, she is not sure she will be able to move up with her best friend, Jasmine.
Published: August 4, 2020 Eleven-year-old Ailey Benjamin Lane can dance—so he’s certain that he’ll land the role of the Scarecrow in his school’s production of The Wiz.
Unfortunately, a talented classmate and a serious attack of nerves derail his audition: he just stands there, frozen.
Deflated and defeated, Ailey confides in his Grampa that he’s r.
Best friends Rasheeda and Monique are both good girls.
For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following her deeply religious and strict aunt’s every rule.
For Mo, that means not making waves in the prestigious and mostly White ballet intensive she’s been accepted to.
But what happens when Sheeda catches the eye of Mo’s older brother, .
Sadly, though, new middle-grade books about dance are far and few in between.
Often, there’s a side character who dances and she has an eating disorder (which happens a lot with ballerinas, but still)! My favorite middle-grade about ballet and dance in general so far has been Paula Chase’s Turning Point which comes out next month.
Published: May 19, 2020 Astronomy-obsessed Abby McCourt should be thrilled about the solar eclipse her small town of Moose Junction is about to witness, but she’s not.
After her older sister Blair was sent away for an eating disorder, Abby has been in a funk.
Desperate to dull the pain her sister’s absence has left, she teams up with a visiting ast.
Woodland Dance! (Boynton on Board) The Story Orchestra:
