Our Children's Program Dance Classes
Our Children's dance classes teach to the whole child to dance, think, create and work well with others.
Our Children's Program Dance Classes Incorporate Intellect, Creativity & Discipline.
Kids love to move and when you play music, they dance around the room. Observe them closely and you will notice that they repeat the same movements over and over. They not only have a limited early speaking vocabulary, they have a limited early movement vocabulary.
As they become familiar with movement concepts, they can understand points of reference and perspective. For example, they will take one movement that feels very familiar in their body and with our instructor’s guidance make it into a dozen different movement variations. They'll try it high, try it low, try it backwards, upside down, with a partner etc. It’s all wrapped in fun creative themes and it opens up unlimited possibilities to move, express and relate to the world around them.
Our children's program leverage a child's love of movement with a movement vocabulary and we build on that vocabulary to help them define the physical and social world around them. Dance is more than physicality, it involves intellect, creativity, and discipline. Kid's love our dance classes because they are fun. We make learning dance fun because it works. Like you, we believe that every child deserves an essential dance foundation for a happy life pursuing excellence in all things.
ADI's founder and current director, Elizabeth Chayer, continues to pioneer improved dance instruction practices and has been incorporating them into her school's curriculum for over twenty seven years.
Elizabeth wrote a quick read guide, explaining the must-ask questions to ask dance schools, before you give them your money. She wrote this guide after gleaning the repeat questions from over a thousand school interviews. Arm yourself with knowledge to make an informed choice. It is free and no email address is required.
Children's Dance Classes In A Noncompetitive Learning Environment
- We teach to the 'whole child' to dance, think, create and to work well with others.
- ADI teaches young children an alternative to 'competition with other students' and this alternative ultimately makes them ideal competitors, happier people, and excellent citizens.
- ADI teaches every child to first discover 'their personal best' as a benchmark and not to compare themselves to others who may have more or less natural ability.
- ADI's non-competitive environment actually improves your child's ability to learn.
Kid's Dance Classes In Safe Dance Studios
Our Seattle dance studios, located in Greenwood at 8001 Greenwood Ave North, and 3116 West Smtih Street in Magnolia, are ideally suited spaces for children to run, jump and land safely on 'sprung floors', protecting them from the injuries that occur on concrete, mat- covered or even common wood floors. Our dance floors are also steam cleaned daily and are fr
ee of chemical contaminants.
Pre-Ballet / Tap Combo Dance Classes
Children's Dance Classes and Neural Connectivity
Stanford Professor Richard Powers writes in his paper; Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter, "Dancing integrates several brain functions at once-kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional-further increasing one's neural connectivity." Read more.
Mommy & Me Parent Toddler Dance
America Dance Institute offers FREE Mommy or Daddy & Me Parent-Toddler classes.
Children's Tap Dancing Classes
A Children's Tap Dancing Class performance at a Greenwood-Phinney ArtWalk performance. Community performances such as ArtWalk provide a great opportunity to showcase what they've learned. It also builds community.
All ADI dance classes introduce verbal and movement vocabularies, new conceptual frameworks, perspectives and problem-solving skills, and we are the A in S.T.E.A.M. concepts. Your child will better relate to the world around them and their peers and their ability to learn everything will increase as well.
Children's Hip Hop Dance Classes
ADI Instructor, Moira Bugler, leads a class of children in a Pre-Hip Hop dance class. Moira studied with Emmy award winning Choreographers Tabbitha & Napoleon and Luther Brown of the hit TV show: So You Think You Can Dance.
Children's Creative Dance
ADI is movement, physicality, and progress, not tutus, costumes & makeup.
American Dance Institute's Children's Ballet Students
Pre-Ballet Dance Classes
"Enroll your children in ADI and relax."
My daughter studied at ADI for five years before we moved away. We loved and miss ADI.
Ebba Lucander Entrepreneur, Activist, ADI Parent, 5 years
Teen Ballet
Sophia, a longtime student, began studying at ADI at age ten. She's off to college now and a wonderful life.
Children's Irish Dancing Classes
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