Monday, February 23, 2009

How Live Dance Performances Can Help Improve Skills

By Sarah Wilkiamson

Most good quality dance schools will showcase their pupils and institution with various recitals and performances. These reflect well on the school and assist to make their students stay focused on learning dance skills and performing in public. In addition the school can benefit from these performances with new prospective students.

Performances can also be a good way to judge if a school is right for your child. The standard of the performance will be a good indication of what is expected from students and, most importantly, what they can deliver. Don't just look at what the children are doing though; spend some time examining the teachers and how they respond to those performances.

How can these performance opportunities help your child? Performing in public can help your child learn dance faster and better than just concentrating on lessons. Although dance lessons can be fun and stimulating there is nothing like the thrill of a live performance to really give your child that extra edge. They will put in more work for a live performance than for the regular lessons.

As soon as they put into practice dance numbers students learn how to focus on certain dance skills. In order to put on an excellent performance it is necessary to put in a lot of practice. This is because they will require putting a lot of work into the performance when they perform before a live audience. This hard work helps students focus on certain dance skills and in addition teaches them discipline.

Performing before a live audience is a thrilling experience. No doubt there is also a certain amount of nervousness before the performance, but in the end your child will learn the value of polishing and perfecting their skills. When you take part in a public performance the dance routines must be done exactly right and this takes a lot of extra work and discipline.

When your child has done a few performances they will develop confidence in their dancing ability. This will allow them to learn at a quicker rate. By way of added confidence in themselves they will be proficient to learn other skills in life with no trouble. In this way dance performances will help out your child in other areas of life.

We all try to set and achieve goals these days. No matter what your chosen profession these days, goal setting and delivering results seems to be a focal point. For many people, this is difficult to adjust to if they haven't had expose to goal setting in their youth.

Some parents worry about the stress placed on their children during live performances. This is natural and very understandable. Often the most nervous participants in recitals and shows are the parents of the performers. The sort of relationship building that occurs as a result of an event like a dance performance is very beneficial to everyone in the family, not just the child performing on the stage.

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