“good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” ~gail godwin
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Performance Arts
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” ~Gail Godwin
WHY performance arts?The kinesthetic arts improves:
Self-concept
Learning and cognition
Creativity
Social Skills
Emotional Intelligence
How Do Performing Arts Improve Self-Concept?
• Ability to express personal ideas without fear of censorship • Beauty of movement
• Skills of choreography
• Compositional structure, sequencing, collaboration skills, and interpretation
• Develop rhythm, coherence, and flow
• Refine technical skills including artistic problem-solving, time-space issues, emotional impact, and the logistics of production work.
How Do Performing Arts Improve Learning and Cognition?
• Dance can develop balance, which can improve reading skills
• Improves learning from
role-modeling, nonconscious acquisition, trail and error, experimentation, and peer demonstration
• Facilitates the maturation of the brain’s cortical systems.
• Reading, counting, speaking, and problem- solving are all maturation correlated.Kinesthetic arts activate far more brain areas than traditional
seatwork. National Institutes of Health say that when athletes achieve excellence in a sport, “they are probably using close to 100% of their
brain.”
How Do Performing Arts Improve Creativity?
• It empowers children
• There is a correlation between movement arts and higher college entrance scores
• It primes the brain
for new ideas and the will to carry them out.
• It can bring history,
math, literature, and social studies to life!
How Do Performing Arts Improve Social Skills?
• Young people have an opportunity to relate to the opposite sex in a nonthreatening setting that includes social discipline and emphasis on courtesy and consideration for others.
• It can break tension and help build community.
• Children learn how to interact with others in a structured setting, which provides a set of social markers for acceptable social behavior.
• Theater games and movement help children become less self-conscious in a safe environment.
How Do Performing Arts Improve Emotional Intelligence?
• Movement arts promote emotional and physical health.
• They produce “feel-good” chemicals in the brain (noradrenalin and dopamine) which improves
learning and well being!
• Children often think that, “the world happens to me.” This belief hinders their
self-efficacy,sense of empowerment, and it can lead to depression.
• Students who participate in the movement arts know that they have control over how they feel!