With the frightening rise in child obesity, it’s more important than ever to get our students moving and encourage them to keep active in every way they can. Dance is a wonderful motivation towards increased physical exercise as well as an extraordinarily creative outlet for students of all ages. Dance is especially appealing to those students who do not enjoy sports as much but still wish to be active. I think you will agree that every available outlet we can provide to increase physical fitness and emphasize positive nutrition for students needs to be exploited!
Here at Woburn, we offer 4 levels of dance, one suited for each grade level. Each course focuses on technique development, strength, flexibility and creation. Every student is involved in both our end-of-the-year performance and the Annual Woburn Dance Festival. In recent years, Woburn Dance has committed to more community outreach, resulting in the creation of Grade 8 Dance Day - a day dedicated to introducing grade 8 students from our local public schools to what dance is like in high school through 1/2 day workshops, led by Woburn's own senior dance students!
Dance provides many fundamental and necessary life-skills needed in today’s work force. It increases self-confidence and helps to lower performance and presentation anxiety, necessary skills for any job interview! Involvement in dance teaches focus and dedication to a goal, and helps students to appreciate the rush of excitement and accomplishment when that goal is reached, as well as emphasizing collaborative skills and helping students to develop positive and productive group dynamics. And it taps into the students’ creative problem solving abilities and helps to hone them! Additionally, dance helps to increase flexibility, strength, and endurance, increase the amount of physical activity in one’s life, focus on and improve nutritional education and food choices, improve intrinsic skills such as team-work, cooperation, discussion and debating skills and problem-solving and increase ability take criticism and learn to improve from it