How Tap Dance Helps Your Child's Education

Have you ever discovered what tap dance can do for your kids' ability to learn?

Sure, most parents know that tap dance is a fun outlet and hobby, but it has also been linked to better mental health and a host of other benefits for every age.

A good tap dance program sets kids up for success. It builds with progressive, step-by-step learning that helps kids rack up small accomplishments. Paired with building a variety of new skills, tap can also impact how your child learns, at home and at school.

Tap Dance is one of the most unique dance forms, because we dance AND we create music, using tap shoes as percussion instruments! This means that tap dance not ONLY has the physical benefits of dance, it also has the mental benefits of learning!!

Learn about the 5 ways Tap Dance Helps your child's education:

1. Train their musical ear

Music and dance go hand-in-hand. As kids learn how to do the steps and routines, they also learn how to listen to the beats and move to the rhythm.

As you progress with your tap dancing, you will be encouraged to use your own imagination and creativity to create your own sequences, steps, and rhythms.

And because of the music theory taught in Tap class, students who study other musical instruments get to kinesthetically reinforce those skills in the dance studio.

2. GENERAL ACADEMICS & IQ

The musical training that exists in Tap class has been found to be related to higher IQ, standardized test scores and overall academic achievement.

3. MATHEMATICS

"When children learn rhythm, they are learning ratios, fractions and proportions," Tap Dance can help your child learn math in an artistic way!

4. LANGUAGE

Tap Class requires listening skills to understand rhythm patterns. These rhythmic listening skills can positively impact the development of language and reasoning!

5. BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

Because of the combined features of counting, music & movement, Tap Dance engages many parts of the brain and helps to improve its capacity for learning.

Studies have shown that tap dancing helps the brain learn and memorize complex sequences along with the corresponding rhythmic sounds.

Learning tap techniques or choreography, listening to musical cues, and staying on beat all require mental focus. This increased focus is a mastery your child takes with them, whether it's in dance class, at school, or at home. Tap is an excellent method to help your little one strengthen their memory, improve how they learn, and learn a fun new skill.

We know that your child's development is your top priority. It's ours too. Join our award winning school, voted Best Studio for 15 years in a row, and CHANGE YOUR CHILD'S LIFE THROUGH DANCE!