For this blog post, I picked a current event about dance. From "The Atlantic" I found an article called, "Learning Empathy Through Dance". This article is basically about teaching kids social-emotional skills through dance. Dance is one of those things that you can do to let out your emotions, to forget about everything in life and escape in your on world, and dance. In this article, fifth-grade students from West Athens Elementary School live in Los Angeles's most violent neighborhood, were the school is also located. Baja Poindexter teaches these fifth-graders every Wednesdays, ball room dance. Poindexter is a teaching artist for Dancing Classrooms, which is a nonprofit based in New York City. This base brings ballroom dancing to schools primarily in undeserved communities. Baja Poindexter wants these kids to feel luck the class is a safe place where they can be and learn how to have respect for themselves and each other, forgetting about the negativity back at home. In the article Poiondexter says, " They're at a disadvantage, and at some point, they realize they're at a disadvantage", she says . "Will dance keep them away from some of these negative thing? I do believe that, and thats why I teach." ( Yap 2). I picked this article because it interests me. Its about dance, but theres so much to dance that can make a change in the world. It makes me happy to read this article and learn about Baja and that she's teaching kids about something that she loves, but also doing it to help them, she believes in them. Its a shame that these kids are unfortunate and have to live in in such a negative environment. Not only dance can be something for these students to stay away from the negativity at home, but also different clubs, sports, or anything that they enjoy and that keeps them busy. This is a great tool to educate the kids and leads them to the path of success, and also hopefully help them be the ones to change their community to a safe loving place to live.
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