WHY DANCING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

Dancing embodies one of our most essential relationships in the world. Not only is it a universal language, but incorporates physical, cognitive, emotional, self-esteem, and socialization benefits. It gives opportunity to express language and evoke when thoughts or emotions are too powerful during the developmental stage, and ultimately during one’s whole life. When movement becomes structured and is performed with awareness for its own sake, it becomes dance.  

While our educational systems for early childhood include drawing and singing, they sometimes neglect to include dance. It is essential that education provide our children with the developmental benefits and unique learning opportunities that come from organizing movement into the aesthetic experience of dance. 

Although a dance program in schools is not entirely a new concept, this Dance Wellness program - designed by Olga Foraponova (American Smooth Champion, world-renowned adjudicator, and coach) - specifically targets to achieve another approach to serve the benefits of dance. 

OUR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE WELLNESS, LIFE-SKILLS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, A SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND OF COURSE FUN! AS CBZ FOUNDATION WE WISH TO BRING EDUCATION VIA SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS THAT WILL ALLOW ONE TO PURSUE THIS ART FORM.