"Ladanse,c'est le mouvement,et le mouvement, c'est la vie. (Dance
is movement, and movement is life)."
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff
| The dance programs of CISD have been awarded state and nation
wide recognition for their Fundamentally cultural and aesthetic in nature,
dance is a powerful non-verbal language. Students are actively involved
in a universal, essential form of personal, social, cognitive, physical
and artistic expression.
Dance education makes significant contributions to the understanding of culture while developing personal creativity and expressiveness through guided movement experiences. Conroe Independent School Disctrict strongly affirms that dance is a comprehensible academic discipline which is essential to the total growth, development, and education of all children K-12. Students of CISD dance programs learn to perceive, to communicate, and appreciate the common and diverse features of a society. Students develop non-verbal as well as verbal skills and literacy through a process of making movement experiences personal and culturally meaningful. Carefully designed educational progressions for learning dance enables students to perceive, evaluate, and understand dance as a performing art, as a transmitter of culture, and as symbolic literature. |
CISD Dance Web Pages:Peet
Junir High Dancing Dolls |
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