dance @ barking legs

Creative Dance for Kids

Because movement is key to learning, this creative dance program engages kids' senses, creative spirit, and incredible thinking minds. Positive interaction through natural movement. This class encompasses many ages, boys and girls love it!
No prior dance experience necessary.

Our Creative Dance for Kids classes engage the mind and body with effective intrapersonal and cooperative skills, as well as intellectual, physical and social skills. Utilized are some of the latest in dance movement research, such as the Braindance warm-up and other methods of innovative movement theories of instruction. This innovative program is the brainchild of dancer and dance educator Ann Law (MS Dance ED), who explores her theories of movement and learning with the children in these engaging and stimulating cutting-edge movement classes!

We do classes for homeschoolers as well!
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Creative Dance Instructor Bios:

Ann Law, the creator of our popular programs, has a BA in dance and a Masters in Dance Education. She spent 5 years in the public school system developing and evaluating her unique and engaging approach to creative dance for children and adults, based upon innovative movement ideas as Brain Dance and her own theories of community-engaging and holistic dance education. She continues her work by offering these innovative classes. In addition to designing and implementing the new Chattanooga State Dance Department to train dancers and dance educators, she has been working on her one-woman media/modern dance performance, Passion Flower Project, which documents her recent journey with healing from a breast cancer diagnosis.

Cornelius L. Heard is a popular, enthusiastic and fun instructor with a background in dance, voice and musical theater. A Chattanooga native who attended both the Center for Creative Arts and the North Carolina School for the Arts with a diploma in contemporary ballet, Cornelius returns share his recent experience anf knowledge gained from teaching children at the Harlem School of Dance in New York. His one-man show will be making its Chattanooga debut in the Autumn of 2009 at the Barking Legs Theater. Look for Cornelius's upcoming musical theater classes for children and teens, coming to our Creative Dance Program reperatoire of classes!