BrainDance: Early Childhood & Primary Grades

BrainDance: Early Childhood & Primary Grades

Workshop | Available

Adults
3/30/2025 (one day)
1:00 PM-4:00 PM PST on Sun
Download iCalendar
$100.00 USD

BrainDance: Early Childhood & Primary Grades

Workshop | Available

BrainDance is based on fundamental movement patterns infants move through in the first year of life and continue refining through childhood. Healthy development depends on a strong foundation built by a child’s experiences with movement, touch, and responsive relationships. Using rhymes, rhythmic chants, simple children’s songs, and music, the BrainDance is a playful, multi-sensory, and accessible way to nurture a child’s exploration of self-awareness.

Join us and learn how this unique and flexible movement tool supports physical, cognitive, perceptual, and social-emotional development. For all abilities and disabilities, the BrainDance can be done in any setting including classrooms, homes, libraries, preschools, and dance studios. Daycare providers, early childhood specialists, librarians, elementary teachers, paraeducators, parents, caregivers, OTs, PTs, and dance teachers are all welcome.


Limited tuition assistance available for dance teachers and educators whose employers do not provide Professional Development funding. Email info@creativedance.org for more information.

CDC is ADA accessible with elevator access from our parking lot at the rear of the building. Please notify terry@creativedance.org in advance if elevator is needed.

Attending all 3 BrainDance Workshops? Get a coupon code for $15 off! Contact us at registrar@creativedance.org.

  • This workshop is in-person at the Creative Dance Center.

    Tuition assistance is available.  Email registrar@creativedance.org for more information.

Goetz, Terry
Terry Goetz

Terry Goetz (she/her) is Director of the Creative Dance Center. She began training with CDC Founder Anne Green Gilbert in 1997 and joined the CDC faculty in 2000. A former member of Pacific Northwest Ballet (1988-1995) and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (1986-1988), she performed works by Balanchine, Taylor, Limón, Lubovitch, Dendy, Cunningham, Naharin, Petipa, and Bournonville, as well as full-length classical works. Along with teaching dance across ages and genres at CDC, Terry presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally in BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education. In 2015 Terry was honored as Dance Educator of the Year at the Dance Educators Association of Washington Conference. This annual award is presented to dance educators working in the state of Washington who exemplify excellence in dance education.