YDance! is a week-long dance camp held at The Malashock Dance School, that is made possible by a partnership with The Peninsula Family YMCA. During these busy summer months, many families are looking for camps that will keep their kids happy, active, and curious for a week or so.
The Malashock Dance School is proud to facilitate a camp where 5-8 year-old students are engaged in a variety of healthy, creative, physical activities that will explore dance as a medium for creation, performance, and even story telling. Students involved will become active as choreographers, building self-esteem and social cooperative skills along the way. They will explore the possibilities of space, time, and energy as they play games, learn dances, and identify new ways of moving. Sounds fun, right? Well, don’t tell the kids, but there happens to be a few other reasons why dance camp is a great choice…
· In addition to being listed as a core academic subject in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, dance is an opportunity for students to explore kinesthetic learning, or learning by actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or merely watching a demonstration. This is the least used learning style in a traditional classroom setting, and may be a hidden strength of your child!
· The arts, including dance, teach children to absorb information and communicate effectively using words, images, sounds, and movement. These are the tools they must master in order to develop the creativity and determination necessary to compete in the global information age.
· The Malashock Dance School is committed to your child, and our community. By supporting partnerships like YDance! you will also reap the benefits of both established organizations and all they have to offer!
YDance! Camp will be held from 9am-12pm August 16-20, 2010
The Malashock Dance School
2650 Truxtun Road Suite 202, San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 260-1622
www.MalashockDance.org
Registration, payment, pick-up, and drop-off are through the Peninsula Family YMCA
4390 Valeta Street, San Diego, CA 92107
(619) 226-8888
www.peninsula.ymca.org
As a recent dance graduate (Laban, London), interested in pursuing a career in Arts Management, I left Great Britain with my sights set on the American west coast. Having worked for the organization Dance UK I was keen to learn whats happening in Dance across the pond. After dodging the volcanic ash, traveling 15 hours and finally declared not a terrorist so safe to enter the United States…. I arrived. All this in order to spend 3 months with the Malashock Dance office team in Point Loma, San Diego.
