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CURRENT CLASSROOMS & EVENTS

We are out in the community sharing dance in the classroom. See what schools are currently participating in our program and what events are coming up.

Teaching Artists = Christine Luders • Mae Ann Panitan • Sherry Siewert • Andrea Bradshaw • Erin Briones

FALL TERM

Minter Creek – Gig Harbor
Voyager – Gig Harbor
Mountain Meadow – Enumclaw
Black Diamond – Enumclaw

WINTER TERM

Byron Kibbler – Enumclaw

Westwood Elementary – Enumclaw
Southwood Elementary – Enumclaw
Sunrise – Enumclaw
Auburn Homeschool Co-op -Auburn

SPRING TERM

Purdy Elementary – Gig Harbor
Sunrise – Kent
Silver Lake – Federal Way

COLORS OF THE RAINBOW EVENT

Saturday Jan 20th • 1-2:30pm
Sumner High School Performing Arts Center • Sumner, WA

THANK YOU

To the Harvest Foundation grant for help funding Dancing Classrooms for 2023-2024

"Elementary Students Get Ready to Rhumba with Ballroom Dance Lessons"

POSTED ON NOVEMBER 8TH, 2023 BY: CHRISTINA T HENRY

Sultry tango music plays in a half-empty portable classroom at Voyager Elementary School. Chairs and tables have been pushed aside to create a small dance floor, where students in pairs mark the beat with their feet.


NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING ARTISTS

THE MISSION & VISION

Dancing Classroom’s MISSION is to cultivate essential life skills in children through the practice of social dance. Dancing Classroom’s VISION is to have schools and communities where every child is connected, respected and provided a safe environment in which to thrive.

Improve Focus & Behavior

Contribute to a Positive School Culture & Build Peer to Peer Relationships

Foster Social & Emotional Learning

THE PROGRAM

5th & 8th Grade Classrooms

10 weeks = 20 lessons • 45min sessions
(taught during the school day)

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

The cost of one classroom is $3000.
Pacific Ballroom Dance subsidizes 50% of that cost.


1 classroom = $3000 = $1500 (Covered by the School) + $1500 (Covered by PBD)

FUNDING RESOURCES

Rotary Clubs • Grants • School District Funds • PTA Funds

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• History of Dancing Classrooms – 

The Dancing Classrooms program was launched in 1994 by world-renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine.  What begin over 25 years ago as an arts-in-education program teaching ballroom to 5th graders in NYC has grown to be a world renowned organization that brings the joy of social dance to elementary, middle school and high school students.

Dancing Classrooms mission is to cultivate essential life skills in children through the joyful art and practice of social dance.  Our vision is to have schools and communities where every child is connected, respected, and provided a safe environment in which to thrive. 
 

While Dancing Classrooms has been hailed as an effective program for teaching social dance, the program provides many other benefits.  A Dancing Classrooms residency creates a learning atmosphere that engages all of the intelligences, inspiring students who may be typically introverted and reserved, to step out and shine.  Engaging in dancing focuses children’s physical energies and increases health through the joy of movement.  In a school, a Dancing Classrooms residency builds community among its participants and within the school community as a whole.  

“Dancing is about connections…to our friends, to our families, to our neighbors.  It is one of the most expressive ways we celebrate and communicate our cultures and communities.  With Dancing Classrooms, we are able to reach children in existing classroom settings and address fundamental issues of mutual respect and self-esteem – issues that social dance puts into practice.  We hope to inspire children through dance to do well, to respect one another, to be proud.  This program is about more than dance, it is about teaching children to take a bow.”    – Pierre Dulaine & partner Yvonne Marceau

• PBD & Dancing Classrooms

Pacific Ballroom Dance adopted Dancing Classrooms into offered program more than 12 years.  We see first-hand the benefits and confidence each student who participates in the program receives.  We are proud to be a part of an effective social and emotional program.   

Bring Dancing Classrooms to Your School Today!

To find out more information about how Dancing Classrooms can benefit your school or to sign up,
please email our Director of Outreach Adam Lee.

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What people are saying about Dancing Classrooms

“(Dancing Classrooms) is really a natural way to teach kids and practice treating each other with respect and treating people the way you want to be treated.”

Jeff Barnes

Principal, Mountain Meadow Elementary 2021

“Competing at Colors of the Rainbow taught me good and healthy competition”

Will

Student, Dancing Classrooms

“Dancing classrooms is so much more than dancing lessons. Students begin the program being unsure of themselves and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. They transform into a family that supports one another in ways that reach beyond the classroom. To be vulnerable with your classmates while learning something new together leads to confidence in all areas of life. I am grateful for the transformation so many children experience through this program! It’s not about the dancing…but the dancing is fun!”

Desi Gibb

School Teacher