The experience of dance involves simultaneously feeling, imagining and thinking with the consequent increasing awareness and ability in all these areas. To dance is, in the deepest sense of the word, to feel more vividly.
Self awareness grows with movement awareness.
Children Dancing 1990, Shreeves R. Ward Lock Educational - Practical Guide Series. Movement Work with Very Young Children. 1994, Crichton S. and Greenland P. Jabadao Publication. Developmental Movement for Children. The knees are the half way house between the hips and the feet.