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 faster self-confidence, emphasizing motor skill development, coordination skills, limbering and muscle tone.
Rhythm is the strongest element in music, and a child's natural response to music is to move rhythmically. For that reason, this program is as much for music readiness as it is for dance, and it is a fun-filled experience for children.
Melissa Lowe received early training at the School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre where she was an apprentice to the company. She danced professionally with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Houston Ballet as a soloist and the Pacific Northwest Ballet as a principal dancer. She is currently a Professor of Ballet and the Director of Early Movement Education at the University of Arizona.
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