EARLY CHILDHOOD MATTERS!
DanceSport Education • September 24, 2018
Why Are Art Classes Like Dance So Important for Children in Their Early Years?
1. Developing of healthy behaviors/brain devleopment
Dance and especially ballroom dance come with many benefits, which are so important for children in their younger years.
The research:
Early childhood matters! Children are born learning. And what they learn in their younger years can change the course of their lives. Research is definitive that the behaviors set in childhood are a crucial component of a child’s healthy development and they get carried through adulthood. Therefore, it is of paramount importance that children are set on a healthy lifestyle path.
Additionally, high quality early learning is critical to ensuring that children are receiving developmentally appropriate care in a supportive environment. These relationships can provide lasting benefits to children, especially those, who are facing adverse experiences in other aspects of their lives.
Our DanceSport Education program. We are completely aware of the benefits to set children on a healthy lifestyle path that they will carry thriugh adulhood. That is why, at DanceSport Education, we start working with children as young as 4 years of age.
Quality Counts! At DanceSport Education
we firmly believe in the paramount importance of high quality learning in a supportive environment. We also believe that quality instruction comes from quality teachers. That is a major reason for us to choose to deliver our curriculum with the highest quality of instruction by world-class, top-rated professionals, who have proven themselves as competitors and as instructors and coaches of numerous others – from kids to adults, to amateur and professional couples. If you take a closer look at their careers, they have been exposed to the highest quality world-class instruction.
We firmly believe that children should start their dance and ballroom dance journey with this kind of quality expertise and care! Quality instruction and high levels of expectations are key for student success – in education, in dance and in life!
Sources:
- https://www.firstthingsfirst.org/early-childhood-matters/brain-development/
- www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201506/physically-active-children-grow-be-healthier-adults
- https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/arts-in-early-childhood-dec2015-rev.pdf
Note: This is a series of blogs on the benefits of ballroom dance for children and youth.
Author: Elka Hristova, Co-Founder of DanceSport Education
Proud to Show What Our AZ Autism Charter School Students CAN Do!!!
Every day, our committed employees work to support the community we serve. Now, they need our help. Our organization is committed to ensuring that our employees are able to maintain financial stability and provide day-to-day necessities for their families during the coronavirus crisis. We bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students at their schools, in their classrooms. But due to COVID outbreak, Arizona schools are now mandated to close through the end of the school year and out employees have lost their source of income. Their situation is further aggravated by the Stay-At-Home order issued for the state of Arizona. Our organization’s most urgent goal is to retain our highly qualified and specially trained personnel, who work with children with autism. Such personnel is rare to find and costly to train and retain. Under normal circumstances, our professionals are long-term committed to the program – however if we lose them because of the COVID-19 disaster, it would be virtually impossible to reinstate the program. Retaining our personnel is critical not only to the existence of the program, but also to the ultimate recipient – children with autism in a school set-up. We kindly ask that you join us in supporting our dedicated employees. Your gift will help provide immediate financial support so they can purchase essential food, medicines, and other supplies. Help keep our employees safe and healthy so they can eventually return to their work serving our community.
INVEST IN US! Let me share why you should invest in us. We are a small 501(c)(3) non-profit and we bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students, at their schools, in their classrooms with the highest level of instruction! We make the art of ballroom dance affordable and accessible to all students, especially for those that are low income and at risk. This year, for the first time in Arizona we are bringing the benefits of ballroom dance to 230 K-12 students with autism at the Arizona Autism Charter Schools. It is Arizona's Only Autism-Focused Tuition-Free Charter public school. Students enrolled at this school are on the autism spectrum with varying degrees of intellectual/developmental disabilities. AZ Autism Charter School serves over 40% low income students. 15% of the students are African-American,1% American Indian, 5% - Asian, 51% - Hispanic and 28% white. The ballroom dance experience at the school is part of the students’ project-based life skills curriculum. Many studies and research findings have supported the positive implication of dance therapy to people with autism. We are at the school 4 days /week, delivering 40 ballroom dance classes every week. The impact of ballroom dance that we see is INCREDIBLE, especially with the highest impacted students! We take so many things for granted, including the ability to move, speak, coordinate our body and socialize. Our students need to learn all this, and the art of ballroom dance is helping them tremendously. These students enjoy, love and thrive in our classes. Until our program, they had no such opportunity available to them, alone an opportunity to express themselves in public and show what they CAN do. Please help us get the full $3,000 match by making your tax-deductible donation today. The funds will be used for rehearsals and extended support during their public event performances. This is an unprecedented commitment toward these students with special needs. They want and need to show to the public what they CAN do. This is the first of such successful efforts in Arizona! These students need your support! Say "YES" to them! We are their HOPE! All #AzGivesDay donations are *tax-deductible and will go toward rehearsals and extended support during their public event performances. Please help us get the full $3,000 match by making your tax-deductible donation today. THANK YOU! We are sincerely grateful for those who support our mission and enable us to bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students with special needs, at their schools, in their classrooms. www.azgives.org/DanceSportEducation *The $2 trillion stimulus package includes the Charitable Giving Incentive, which lifts the existing cap on annual contributions for those who itemize, raising it from 60 percent of adjusted gross income to 100 percent. For corporations, the bill raises the annual limit from 10 percent to 25 percent. Elka Hristova Co-Founder and Director DanceSport Education
