Why Take Dance?

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 West Humber, 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 various performances in-class, school-wide and in the surrounding community.

West Humber Dance encompasses every form of dance available, from hip hop to ballet to Bollywood - we've tried it all! Our dancers are students in grade 9, 10 11 and 12 - taking curricular credits in dance or donating their time in extracurricular clubs to create the most amazing choreography and most impressive shows! Unlike a traditional Fine Arts school, many of our dancers have never danced formally before entering our programme. Their first experience in a studio is here in ours. With a love of music and a desire to move, they begin with one step and, in the end, learn about team work, creativity, assertive presentation skills, problem solving, independence and, most importantly, how to set goals and reach them!

There is no audition to enter the dance program, it is open to every student in the school who shows an interest! It is the belief of Ms. J., the Programme Coordinator that dance should be accessible to everyone, not just those who have had the opportunity to train before entering high school.

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

So many benefits to be found in one course… why not join and discover for yourself what it can bring to your life?

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