Read To Learn Dance To Move, The Color Dance

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Let’s Move! Join us for a free online Facebook Live Event as DANCECleveland’s Read To Learn…Dance To Move Instructor, Regina Pietraroia, guides your child through our literacy and movement program designed for children ages 3-6.

Log on to the DANCECleveland Facebook Page at 1:30 pm to join. https://www.facebook.com/DANCECleveland/

Read To Learn…Dance to Move is a curriculum-based program that promotes language, literacy, and movement by engaging students through tactile learning, creative thinking, and imagination! Children will learn about a form of dance, while promoting language and literacy development in young children through movement.

In this 30-minute class, our instructor will introduce movement and incorporate the children’s book The Color Dance, written by Ann Jonas. The book leads to an exploration of the story and the dance form through virtual open-ended questions from the instructor. Next, the children experiment with movement. Finally, the instructor teaches a dance that retells the story and everyone will perform the new dance together at home.

This program was originally designed as an 8 week program for the public school systems. To learn more about the program and getting it in your schools, visit: https://www.dancecleveland.org/educational-outreach/read-to-learn

Read to Learn… Dance To Move is a copyrighted program of DANCECleveland.

Thank you to our generous program funders including: The Ohio Arts Council, The Reinberger Foundation, The Bruening Foundation, & Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.

Looking for more movement? We encourage parents to watch these other videos with their children.

Take turns being an audience member and being a performer with your child!

Meet Your Instructor: Regina Pietraroia.
Regina Pietraroia is the founder and director of Dance Arts by Regina, where she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to students in North Royalton and Cleveland. She grew up in Northeast Ohio training in all styles of dance and went on to train at Butler University in Indianapolis. Regina later joined Ohio Dance Theatre, where she performed a variety of classical and contemporary ballets and repertoire for four seasons. She has been a guest artist with Neos Dance Theatre, City Ballet of Cleveland, North Pointe Ballet, Cleveland Dance Exchange, and Wayne Center for the Arts, and was recently a featured performer at the national Dance/USA conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Regina holds a Bachelor’s in Middle & Secondary Education from Butler University, as well as a Master’s in Arts Administration from The University of Akron. Her extensive teaching experience includes the Berkeley Ballet Theatre, The University of Akron, the American College Dance Festival conference, and guest teaching at many schools around the country. She loves to share the joy of dance with students and audience members.
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