Introducing Professor Pirouette!
Miss Lindsey created the Professor Pirouette program to engage children in academics through dance! This program follows N.C. Curriculum Standards and will focus on literacy, mathematics and science, and learning grade-specific concepts through dance - moving, reading, choreographing and more.
This program has been in the works for years and was scheduled to become a reality this fall with the opening of our new Green Level West location. With many children staying home from school or school plans uncertain, we thought NOW would be an even better time to introduce this exciting new program. We offer virtual and in-person six-week sessions, taught by one of our Starpath teachers, for each elementary grade level K-5.
This program has been in the works for years and was scheduled to become a reality this fall with the opening of our new Green Level West location. With many children staying home from school or school plans uncertain, we thought NOW would be an even better time to introduce this exciting new program. We offer virtual and in-person six-week sessions, taught by one of our Starpath teachers, for each elementary grade level K-5.
Examples of curriculum by grade:
Kindergarten:
Kindergarten:
- Read dance stories and talk about the characters! Create our own characters and stories!
- Practice writing (and performing) dance-related sight words
- Introduce Fractions with Rhythmical Patterns
- Learn force and motion through dancing!
- Practice writing our own stories about dance
- Introduction to Poetry and Rhythm
- Use rhythmical patterns to learn how to work with fractions
- Choreography and formations to explore area and perimeter
- Leg placements likes battemants (kicks) and passes to understand angles
- Writing multiple paragraphs about dance stories, dance recitals, dancers, etc
- Dance research
- Gravity through dancing
Testimonials
"We really enjoyed this program! Especially during COVID. It was a great way for my daughter to do some work but also learn more about dancing. It was never a fight to get her to join, she loved it every week and was excited to be apart of it. We would defiantly want to do this again!"
"It's a wonderful way for the kids to be engaged to dance in a different element. Really trying to get them to understand the terminology with concepts they learn in school."
"It was fantastic! Miss Devin is great with the kids."
100% of parents surveyed after the first six-week session said they would re-enroll their dancer in Professor Pirouette classes multiple times per week.
"It's a wonderful way for the kids to be engaged to dance in a different element. Really trying to get them to understand the terminology with concepts they learn in school."
"It was fantastic! Miss Devin is great with the kids."
100% of parents surveyed after the first six-week session said they would re-enroll their dancer in Professor Pirouette classes multiple times per week.
