Help us deliver DANCE to more FWISD students during 2014-15 by donating to CD/FW's first Indiegogo campaign!
Your support will help to create a pilot project after-school dance program at South Hills Elementary School while supporting Jessica
Thomas as a teaching artist for "Dance Delivered" programs throughout the FWISD.
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Contemporary
Dance
/ Fort
Worth's Dance
Delivered brings dance programming to underserved communities
and the general public to reach audiences and participants of all ages,
abilities, ethnicities, and socio- economic backgrounds. This is accomplished
through presenting performances, teaching residencies, workshops and master
classes in schools, community centers, workplaces, shopping centers, museums,
parks, festivals, landmarks and other targeted locations throughout the
Metroplex.
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DELIVERING
LIFE-LONG LESSONS THROUGH DANCE
Why
study dance? Modern dance is founded on the principles of individualism,
discovery, and freedom of expression, all of which foster independence
and self-esteem in children of all ages. CD/FW's educational programs
promote interdisciplinary studies and underscore the relationship of the
arts to all areas of education. Students learn to:
 Value
the importance of teamwork and cooperation - Enhance their creativity
- Develop a positive
attitude toward themselves and others
- Trust their classmates
through exercises in partnering and weight-sharing
- Develop self-esteem
and confidence
- Practice problem-solving
skills
- Increase communication
skills in a non-competitive atmosphere
- Develop kinetic awareness
and motor coordination
- Explore ways of using
time, space and energy
- Make aesthetic judgments
- Increase appreciation
for dance as an expressive art and recognize the relationship of dance
to the other arts
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