Students learn how to keep their body in time to rhythm and music by doing exercises that work on correct positioning, cardiovascular training and memorising short routines.
Dance allows children to express themselves physically and emotionally and build self-esteem.
Dance helps children throw off everything holding them back or putting them under pressure; dancing lets you explore space with your body, and physically engage with freedom.
Dany Handley-Dunand, who graduated with distinction from the Geneva Conservatoire and studied contemporary dance and jazz in Geneva, London (Centre Laban) and New York (Luigi, Graham and Cunningham), has danced professionally in London and Lyon. She has also studied Stott Pilates.
She represented Switzerland for Unesco’s Dance and the Child International programme. Founder of Crescendo dance school (Bernex, Geneva) teaching ballet, jazz and contemporary dance to students aged 3 years and up.
