Dance and Your Child Dance and Your Child National Endowment for the Arts Dance is essential to general education for boys and girls. Dance education beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life benefits the body, mind and spirit. There is perhaps no better description of education than this.
Dance helps to increase flexibility, improve circulation, tone the body, and develop muscles.
It also improves posture, balance and coordination. Dance enriches learning through a variety of perspectives, both traditional and experimental. Dance awakens consciousness of beauty, lending new meaning to movement and form. Dance increases understanding and appreciation for forms, choices and rituals from a broad range of historical, social, and cultural perspectives. Dance improves sensitivity, understanding, appreciation and consideration for others, both for their similarities and differences.