1.Mind Behind Movement
Emilie Mazon/8th Grade Project/ The Walker School

2. Introduction
3. Introduction
Dance requires
Control
Coordination
4. Introduction (2)
Dance improves
Academic Success
Brain Activity
5. Benefits of Dance
6. Benefits of Dance
Development of Life Skills
7. Dance and Academics
8. Dance and Academics
2005 College-Bound Seniors Table 3-3; SAT Scores of Students Who Study the Arts
9. Dance and Academics (2)
Dance in Schools
10. Dance and Neuroscience
11. Dance and Neuroscience
Brain Scans
12. Dance and Neuroscience (2)
Importance of Training
13. Alternative Perspectives
14. Alternative Perspectives
Unreliable technology?
Music and academics?
15. Conclusion
16. Conclusion
Integrating Dance into Life
17. Mind Behind Movement
Emilie Mazon/8th Grade Project/ The Walker School
18. Sources
Speech:
Arts and Smarts: Test Scores and Cognitive Development. SharpBrains, 16 Apr. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2010. .
Benefits of Arts Education. Americans for the Arts, 2002. Web. 28 Jan. 2010. .
Brown, Steven, and Lawrence M. Parsons. The Neuroscience of Dance. Scientific American July 2008: 78-83. Print.
Brown, Steven. The NeuroArts Lab. McMaster U., 2008. Web. 2 Feb. 2010. .
Hanna, Judith Lynne. Does Dance Education Help Academic Achievement? The Free Library. Web. 28 Jan. 2010. .
19. Sources (2)
Speech continued:
Laws, Kenneth, and Arleen Sugano. Physics and the Art of Dance. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford U. Press, Inc., 2008. Print.
Parsons, Lawrence M. Professor Lawrence Parsons BA, PhD. 2010. Web. 2 Feb. 2010. .
Ruppert, Sandra S. How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement. National Endowment for the Arts. 2006. Web. 4 Feb 2010. .
Pictures (in order of appearance):
http://shrani.si/.../crw8279resized.jpg
http://theballetbag.files.wordpress.com/.../mcrae-cojocaru-small.jpg
http://www.carlisle.k12.ma.us/.../ReportCard.jpg
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/.../Brain%20activity.JPG
SAT chart: 2005 College-Bound Seniors Table 3-3; SAT Scores of Students Who Study the Arts: What We Can and Cannot Conclude about the Association, Kathryn Vaughn and Ellen Winner (Fall 2000)
Momentum picture captured by JanuszMazon
20. Sources (3)
Pictures continued:
Depiction of study on tango dancers scanned from Scientific American July 2008, page 81
http://mapage.noos.fr/.../hda3.jpg
http://www.forum-dansomanie.net/.../prix_lausanne_2008_015.jpg
http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/.../mri2009.jpg
http://cmsimg.detnews.com/.../bilde?Site=C3&Date=20100222&Category=SCHOOLS&ArtNo=2220332&Ref=V4
http://www.made-schools.org.uk/.../RBS-Upper-School-dance-class.jpg
http://boysballet.files.wordpress.com/.../vaganova-ballet-academy-2nd-class-girls-2007.jpg
http://plfoto.com/.../1145625.jpg
Video:
The Georgia Ballet School filmed in The Georgia Ballet in Marietta, GA on March 19, 2010