Acro dance a unique combination of different dance styles, because of its unique and blissfill choreographed performances. Offering so many benefits for children including strength, confidence and much more. In modern life Acro dance is getter more and more popular by the day and more studios are implementing this dance style into their programs. What most people do not know is that acro dance is a specilized sport and you need qualified coaches to teach acro to dancers.
In this blog we will discuss a list of benefits Acro Dance holds for dancers as well as what to look out for when choosing a program. Acro dance programs are available everywhere and finding the right one for you is not as simple as joining the first studio you see. We encourage our readers to research Acro, understand what it is and how it works. To read more about the expectations of Acro classes click here.
Top 8: Benefits from Acro Dance.
- Ballance.
- Flexibility.
- Strength.
- Co-ordination.
- Social skills.
- Self-expression.
- Confidence.
- Self-esteem.
Further in this blog we will discuss how these benefits link to Acro dance, and why we believe Acro is the best dance style in our modern world for our talented children.
1. Ballance and Acro Dance.
We observe our children over many years practicing their ballance at home, on playgrounds and everywhere they play. With acro dance we see them mastering it within a year to a level which most adults have not been.
Ballancing is a crucial element to Acro dance, starting with basic ballancing aid dancers to advanced ballancing. It is also necessary for a dancer to master ballancing to be able to learn and master Tumbling skills.
2. Flexibility and Acro Dance
Flexibility is a skill most people struggle with, it is considered something abnormal. Studies have shown that flexibility can improve your quality of life – Read more.
In Acro dance stretching focusses on improving a dancers flexibility, to not only improve their dance skills but also their life.
3. Strength and Acro Dance
Going to the gym to improve some strength and core? Not getting the results you need.
Acro dance has shown to be a very effective strategy to improve strength and core. Being a very important benefit for dancers not only in the performance world but in our day to day lifes as well.
With Acro focusing on specialized programs designed for children to gain and maintain the strength they need to execute advanced Acro skills we see how it benefits their overall life style and health.
4. Co-ordination and Acro Dance
Forward, backward, sideways, wait what is co-ordination actually?
When refering to co-ordination it is easy to associate it with one movement for example forward, but in reality co-ordination refers to the ability to move different body parts together smoothly. So we can understand how this benefits our dancers and their performances.
Day to day life is all about movement, executing different tasks. With good co-ordination these tasks can be smooth and trouble free even at an old age.
5. Social skills and Acro dance.
So you may wondering how does dancing improve my childs social skills? This is how:
Acro dance is not only about focussing on yourself but focusing on your partner as well as their movement can affect you. It is important to have excellent communication with each other to ensure the performance and routine flows as smoothly possible.
In our acro dance program we incorporate activities to ensure communication and social skills are mastered. In this modern technological world of us, we find it important for dance and day to day life.
6. Self-expression in Acro dance.
Expressing yourself in our modern word has become more deficult as time passes. Acro dance coaches face these challenges and strive to teach dancers the imprortance of self-expression for their own health.
Read more about the importance about self-expression in children.
Learning about how we can support our children not only physically but mentally as well, can lead to our children leading a successful life.
7. Confidence and Dance.
“It breaks my heart on a daily basis, finding that children lack confidence and even don’t know how to deal with receiving compliments” – Coach Natasha
It is so rewarding observing dancers growing their self-confidence from being bullied to stand up agaist bullies.
Dance is a very effective way to improve a childs confidence, especially acro dance, as it is unique and dancers gets that feeling inside “I am better than you”. I hope we can aggree that this mindset is somewhat important.
8. Self-esteem and dancers.
Accepting who you are is not that easy, so imagine for a child in this modern life self-esteem is a difficult concept.
In our dance program we focus on teaching methods that results in dancer growing their self-esteem, choosing to be the best version of themselves and not someone else.
This links alot with confidence and we see them grow together. To read more about the importance of self-esteem and children click here.
Conclusion
In conclusion we listed our top 8 benefits for acro dance, but the benefits are not limited to this list. Acro dance is a extraordinary sport for children benefiting them on so many levels it is actually unbelieveble until you experience it yourself.
If you are looking to register your child for Acro classes start with doing research as ‘wrong’ acro can affect your childs development not only physical but emotional as well. Read more about our programs and what we offer.
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