Showing posts with label dancing in the school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dancing in the school. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2011

Fighting Kids Obesity...Dancing





Healthy eating and physical activity habits are key to your child’s well-being. Eating too much and exercising too little may lead to overweight and related health problems that may follow children into their adult years. 

Family and school can take an active role to help children and young adolescents learn healthy eating and physical activity habits that last a lifetime.


The "Let's Move! Flash Workout" featuring Beyonce, is an initiative developed by NABEF and was scheduled to debut Tuesday, May 3rd 2011.

Middle school students across the country and abroad will simultaneously exercise to the dance routine video "Move Your Body” led by Beyonce herself. Coverage of this event will include local TV networks, live radio station  broadcasts, and Internet streaming.

NAB Education Foundation and Beyonce as the Exclusive Beverage Partner of the 'Let's Move! Flash Workout' Event Dedicated to Fight Childhood Obesity! 



Beyonce made a surprise appearance at PS 161 Pedro Albizu Campos middle school in Harlem May 3rd to lead the middle school students in her dance routine video "Move Your Body"! 


About 85 students at P.S. 161 in Harlem were in the middle of a choreographed routine last tuesday, May 3rd to a song adapted from Beyonce's hit "Get Me Bodied" when the singer arrived.

Education:

Children who carry a lot of excess weight are classed as being obese. Children can become obese if they regularly eat and drink more energy (calories) than their body uses or do too little physical activity. Obesity means children are more likely to develop serious health problems.

Last week, the World Dancing Day I wrote about all the beneficits of dancing in school curricula. 

Dance is a good therapy for young people in the school. This time, dance movement therapy is used to fight obesity.

A good and enjoyable therapy!

G-Souto
06.05.2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011

World Dance Day in the school







"The urge to dance is a natural impulse, dancers worship nature in their way, they connect with the universe and feel its juices trickle into them." 
April 29 is the World Dance Day. World Dance Day was established in 1982 by the International Dance Council - CID of UNESCO to bring attention to the art of dance every year on April 29 birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727),  a French dancer and balletmaster, generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.
Education:
Wim Wenders dedicated a extraordinary documentary to Pina Bausch. I think the most beautiful tribute to the art of dance.
Dance is also a good therapy for young people in the school. Dance movement therapy and the power of dance is used to inspire, uplift and heal.
Dance is a fun and fresh integrative part in the curricula. Sir Ken Robinson's TED lectures on education and creativity are very inspiring about free expression of the kids.
There will be many performances in colleges and out of doors today. So, don't miss the opportunity to let your students express themselves by dancing in the school gardens.


 
"All through the year we teach dance, we rehearse, we perform within four walls. On this special day dedicated to dance, let us mark the difference by practising, teaching or performing for everyone to see. It might be cold and rainy, the floor is certainly not good enough, the wind takes the music away, but the beauty in those movements and the joy on those faces will brighten the hearts of the spontaneous audience of passers-by."
President of the International Dance Council CID UNESCO, Paris 

G-Souto 
29.04.2011    
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