Let's Celebrate!.............as the song goes, parties are great fun and filled with celebrations! And we have some new "party" events that are being planned right now!
Awesome fun is just around the corner for your child with new events that have never been offered before. Fun events for ages 2-4 years, 5-9 years, 10-16 yrs and family events too! Some will be held onsite and others are being planned for secret off site events too!
Tell your friends and family today to start watching our BLOGS, Website and Facebook pages for more information on how you can be a part of these fantastic events and new classes!
"There's A Party Going On Right Here........" and we hope to see you there!
Academy of Fine Arts in Woodward Oklahoma offers classes for all ages in dance, music, art, tumbling, cheerleading, recreational gymnastics, acrobatics, dance, art, performance teams and an arts based educational preschool. Check out our ASPIRE Integrated School Option for K-12 as well.Call us at 405-265-6082 for more information about classes available for you or your child.
Showing posts with label dance classes enid ok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance classes enid ok. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Wanting To Perform A Solo At Recital This Next Spring?
If you are needing a solo dance for pageant, competition or even to perform next spring in recital, now is the time to stop in and get your application for in our Woodward location. Solo work is for ages 4 years through adult and application needs to be made by July 25th to secure you a placement in August.
Solos can be done in ballet, lyrical, contemporary, tap, jazz and hip hop. Vocal solos is also available.
Solos can be done in ballet, lyrical, contemporary, tap, jazz and hip hop. Vocal solos is also available.
NEW AND EXCITING CLASSES COMING THIS FALL!
We are constantly looking for great classes to add to our offering every fall and this time we think we have done an outstanding job! A new music class for young children, a new academic class service, a new dance class and new gymnastic and acrobatic classes are all waiting for your child in our Woodward location!
Enid will be offering some of these classes at the beginning of the season and others will be added as soon as teachers are secured and trained.
So what is new, you ask? Well this is the FIRST PLACE we are revealing the information! So BLOG readers, congratulations on being the first to know!
Here is what we have been working on and cooking up for you this summer!
1. Academic Learning Coach Service for those enrolled with Oklahoma Connections Academy Public Virtual School. Combine their education, our learning coaches to assist your child and our great fine arts programs and you get SUCCESS!! Limited space so talk to us today!
2. Music Fun Time for ages 18 month through 7 years. This theory based learning style is fun, entertaining and academic! You can't lose with it as a class for your child!
3. Gymnastic Ballet Class. No worries about a gymnastic coach telling you that dance is not working with your gymnastics! We have them combined into a cutting edge technique ad performance class! This will blow your mind!
4. Acrobatic Dance is for our younger students that are not quite ready for the Gymnastic Ballet Class. Fun and physical!
5. Aerial Silks! If your child is in and has been in gymnastics and ballet classes, they can now take it to the air! This is NOT a class for just anyone, so you will need to find out more information to see is this can be a great class for your child.
Fall registration in now being accepted and all of our classes are limited in size to make for a better learning environment. Call us today at 580-256-3262 for more information or to get on the list for some of these classes that have not been added to the class offerings yet!
Enid will be offering some of these classes at the beginning of the season and others will be added as soon as teachers are secured and trained.
So what is new, you ask? Well this is the FIRST PLACE we are revealing the information! So BLOG readers, congratulations on being the first to know!
Here is what we have been working on and cooking up for you this summer!
1. Academic Learning Coach Service for those enrolled with Oklahoma Connections Academy Public Virtual School. Combine their education, our learning coaches to assist your child and our great fine arts programs and you get SUCCESS!! Limited space so talk to us today!
2. Music Fun Time for ages 18 month through 7 years. This theory based learning style is fun, entertaining and academic! You can't lose with it as a class for your child!
3. Gymnastic Ballet Class. No worries about a gymnastic coach telling you that dance is not working with your gymnastics! We have them combined into a cutting edge technique ad performance class! This will blow your mind!
4. Acrobatic Dance is for our younger students that are not quite ready for the Gymnastic Ballet Class. Fun and physical!
5. Aerial Silks! If your child is in and has been in gymnastics and ballet classes, they can now take it to the air! This is NOT a class for just anyone, so you will need to find out more information to see is this can be a great class for your child.
Fall registration in now being accepted and all of our classes are limited in size to make for a better learning environment. Call us today at 580-256-3262 for more information or to get on the list for some of these classes that have not been added to the class offerings yet!
Friday, September 28, 2012
Want Your Child To Understand Empathy?
NOTE: Recently, the following article was in a publication for dance teachers. We thought the information was work sharing the article with you as it was published.
Cultivating Empathy
The results are preliminary, but they’re a no-brainer to anyone involved in arts education. A study has found that “children that partake in music activity in a group setting are more prone to developing one of humankind’s noblest traits: empathy.”
The ramifications of this research are discussed in an article on San Francisco Classical Voice (sfcv.org) called “Is Music the New Social Media? ‘Empathy’ Entrainment.” The yearlong study at the University of Cambridge (UK) explored the effects of group music activities on 52 children ages 8 to 11, roughly half boys and half girls. They were divided into two groups, one of which was given group music-based games and the other activities that involved texts and drama only. The children in the music group scored higher on a test that measured empathy.
The experiments didn’t involve dance, but the correlation is obvious. The music activity stressed what lead researcher Tal-Chen Rabinowitch called “entrainment,” in which the children had to become “rhythmically attuned to one another” and “[i]mitation and the sharing of musical goals were also stressed.” Although the imitation games were largely improvisational, “[e]ach child playing a musical instrument had to attend to other children in the group.” Sounds like a dance class, doesn’t it? In effect, teachers are sowing the seeds of empathy.
If the study’s results prove significant and valid, the data will serve well those who argue for arts education. As Joe Landon, executive director of California Alliance for Arts Education, says in the article, “Quality arts programs have the potential to empower and engage students in ways that can promote learning across the board. Students who have a positive sense of themselves are more likely to embrace learning new things and find success in school.”
The article points out that the study raises the issue of individual versus group music education, since most music instruction “is geared toward private performance.” In dance, the opposite is true. So, dance teachers, take note: if group activities in which children are rhythmically attuned to one another promote empathy, your students will have it in spades.
Just one more reason why dance education matters. —Cheryl A. Ossola, Editor in Chief
Dance Studio Life
NOTE: Recently, the following article was in a publication for dance teachers. We thought the information was work sharing the article with you as it was published.
Cultivating Empathy
The results are preliminary, but they’re a no-brainer to anyone involved in arts education. A study has found that “children that partake in music activity in a group setting are more prone to developing one of humankind’s noblest traits: empathy.”
The ramifications of this research are discussed in an article on San Francisco Classical Voice (sfcv.org) called “Is Music the New Social Media? ‘Empathy’ Entrainment.” The yearlong study at the University of Cambridge (UK) explored the effects of group music activities on 52 children ages 8 to 11, roughly half boys and half girls. They were divided into two groups, one of which was given group music-based games and the other activities that involved texts and drama only. The children in the music group scored higher on a test that measured empathy.
The experiments didn’t involve dance, but the correlation is obvious. The music activity stressed what lead researcher Tal-Chen Rabinowitch called “entrainment,” in which the children had to become “rhythmically attuned to one another” and “[i]mitation and the sharing of musical goals were also stressed.” Although the imitation games were largely improvisational, “[e]ach child playing a musical instrument had to attend to other children in the group.” Sounds like a dance class, doesn’t it? In effect, teachers are sowing the seeds of empathy.
If the study’s results prove significant and valid, the data will serve well those who argue for arts education. As Joe Landon, executive director of California Alliance for Arts Education, says in the article, “Quality arts programs have the potential to empower and engage students in ways that can promote learning across the board. Students who have a positive sense of themselves are more likely to embrace learning new things and find success in school.”
The article points out that the study raises the issue of individual versus group music education, since most music instruction “is geared toward private performance.” In dance, the opposite is true. So, dance teachers, take note: if group activities in which children are rhythmically attuned to one another promote empathy, your students will have it in spades.
Just one more reason why dance education matters. —Cheryl A. Ossola, Editor in Chief
Dance Studio Life
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Enid Academy of Fine Arts Soon To Open!
Academy of Fine Arts is expanding! Demands for our programs has increased and we are happy to bring them to Enid! Located at 800 W Broadway, Enid Academy of Fine Arts will offer great classes in dance, music lessons, tumbling and acrobatics, cheer and more. Coming in January is our private academic preschool - kindergarten half day classes!
Enid Academy of Fine Arts will feature five dance studios, five music studios, academic rooms, computer rooms for music theory and more. "It is like the building was just sitting and waiting for us to come to Enid", stated Director Mary Myers. "The building had been vacant for many, many years and there have been several issuses we have had to take care of prior to opening. But what we have now is a great space with a start of the art performing and fine arts school. Everyone working on the facility has been blown away once they walk inside."
An October opening date is being planned. Final work on the floors and other situations continues this week. Be sure to watch for the announcement of our opening day and registration day!
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