Our Mission
It is the goal of the West Virginia Dance Company to enrich lives by creating professional dance and learning experience throughout our region. WVDC will continually create new STREAM projects to assist schools in providing the most current teaching methods. These projects will enhance the students’ overall education and help lead to success in the global workforce.
Program Overview:
Education is an ever-changing world. To prepare our youth for life in a vast and diverse 21st century, students must learn how to use their imagination to be creative and develop a process to innovate. Integrating the arts with subjects across the curriculum and aligning with the new standards will provide a deeper understanding and inquiry-based approach to learning. This inclusion of arts will further enhance “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as we add the arts and reading to become “STREAM”. Arts provide a basic core of humanity that connects people the world over. Research has proven that students who study or participate in the arts have more educational success than those who do not.
Objective:
Through our current integrated arts-education tour, we will empower students with the truth that they are born with great imagination that produces creativity and can be shaped into innovation. By learning about other cultures through dance, we hope to help stimulate a genuine respect and curiosity for our global family. This understanding provides the glue to motivate and aid people to work towards peace and harmony as a desirable, attainable goal.
This project will also serve as a stimulus to help students better-understand the importance of global communication while also viewing and learning the art of dance as a means of communication. The dances are performed to music that is representative of the culture of each continent.