Creative Movement: A Step Towards Intelligence - Melissa Lowe

Creative Movement: A Step Towards Intelligence

Melissa Lowe

A fun-filled introduction to the world of dance and movement.

Instructor Melissa Lowe encourages children to have fun as they clap, sing and move to music, to make faces and imagine. They use scarves and hula hoops to appreciate lightness and roundness, balls and bean bags to learn balance and coordination. Through their games and improvisation, the children develop self-awareness and come to appreciate their expressive potential.

The class is designed to improve body awareness and foster self-confidence, emphasizing motor skills development, coordination skills, limbering and muscle tone.

Rhythm is the strongest element in music, and a child's natural response to music to move rhythmically. For that reason, this program is as much for music readiness as it is for dance, and is a fun-filled experience for children.

Recommended for children ages 2-8.

Melissa Lowe was trained at the schools of American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet, and danced as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Houston Ballet. At the University of Arizona, she is an assistant professor of ballet and director of early movement for children.