Core Values 

1. Everyone can dance: My students will be be encouraged to explore what their bodies can do regardless of shape, size, race, and ability. By observing their peers, they will see more of what is possible in every body.
2. Everyone should dance: Dance is a practice that requires honesty, humility and discipline. It is also a practice of joy. All humans should be acquainted with this.
3. Dance is individual: Thirty students will do the same step thirty different ways. This is what makes us unique.
4. Dance is communal: When students work together to create dance, they are engaging in roles of leadership, creativity and cooperation.
5. Dance is physical: Our society undervalues physical activity. Dance is movement, and movement is what bodies need.Dance is a language capable of expressing what words cannot.
6. Dance is intellectual
7. The Language of Dance requires literacy in terminology and forms
8. The best way to learn to dance is to dance safely and respectfully.