Attention Lexington Two employees, Lex2 will be moving to a new email system Monday afternoon/evening (June 13, 2011). While your email address will not change, you will have a new email password. Your building supervisor (Principal, Asst Principal, etc) will have your new password.
Welcome to dance at SRAA where children will learn to use movement as a way to explore, communicate, and express ideas, feelings and concepts. Students learn about choreography, folk dances, social dances, cooperating with others and problem solving using movement. Students will also learn about the performance styles of dance such as ballet, tap, jazz, and modern.
Dance Quotes
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."
-Shanna Lafleur
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
-Vikki Baum
"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."
-Ted Shawn
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart."
-Unknown
"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!"
-Constanze
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. "
-Japanese Proverb
"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
-Edwin Denby
"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. "
-William Stafford
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth, and it is yours for the taking.”
-Agnes de Mille
“Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.”
-Igor Youshevitch
“Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.”
-George Borodin
“Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.”
-Gabrielle Roth
"Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.”
-Isadora Duncan
“Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
-Voltaire
“Learning to walk set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are.”
-Melissa Hayden
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well, just get up and dance."
-Dave Berry
"Dancing is the Poetry of the Foot"
-John Dryden
"We should consider everyday lost in which we have not danced at least once."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.”
-Maya Angelou
Look for a new quote every Thursday!
Class Links
Ballet Coloring Book This website has pictures of ballet dancers that you can also print to color yourself!
Human Body Mr. Bones has a friend on this website! You can learn all about the bones and even build your own skeleton!
Martha Graham This site allows you to be a part of the Martha Graham dance company. We have learned about Modern dance, and know a few movements. Now you can learn even more about one of the modern dance pioneers, Martha Graham.
The Information Packet for Dance Company Members- 2010. Please refer to this document if you have any questions concerning disipline, absences or dress.