Schoolchildren Show off Smooth Moves in Dance Off Competition
December 8th, 2010
Participants in Dancing With Class, a program for schoolchildren in grades 4 to 6 in the Chicago area, will show off their smooth and saucy ballroom moves during a Dance Off competition. The event is scheduled for December 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the Sidney R. Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Admission is free.
Dancing With Class will hold its Dance Off in Chicago. (Photo courtesy Chicago Cultural Center)
Dancing With Class uses dance as a medium to build teamwork and communication skills, as well as personal character and self-esteem. The Dance Off features several rounds of competition in merengue, swing, fox trot, tango, and salsa, with a Gold Level Overall Champion selected. Participants are from Bateman Elementary, McDade Classical, Passages Charter School, Poe Classical, Ruiz Elementary, Waters Elementary, and Whistler Elementary.
The program is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in conjunction with May I Have This Dance, Inc., Chicago’s leading provider of in-school and after-school dance programs. For more information, visit www.chicagoculturalcenter.org or www.mayihavethisdance.com.
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In Gananoque, Ontario we also have a very similar program that the teachers of Dreams in Motion offer to our area 3 elementary schools.This program we call “Swing….The Mood”. This is a free voluntary program in the schools. We teach the students that would like to participate from Grades 5 – 8 ,Slow-Fox, Merengue, Tango , Cha Cha, Rumba and Jive. We do a 6 week session twice a week and we have all the schools come together for a Social Dance , then after another 8 week session we also have a Dance Off of the schools. We award plaques for each dance category and we have a Traveling Trophy on which the School name is applied, which goes to the school with the winning score overall for the event. The schools involved are St Joseph’s Elementary, Thousand Island Elementary School and Linklater Elementary . This program is run on Grants or out of the generosity of private citizens.Dreams in Motion Performing and Fine Arts School is a Not For Profit Charitable Organization in Gananoque , Ontario .
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