Move 'N Groove Kids Go To The Park - Fun Outdoor Play Set for Toddlers & Preschoolers | Perfect for Park Adventures, Backyard Play & Family Outings

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Product Description Want your kids to dance, learn exercise and have fun all at the same time? That s what Move 'N Groove Kids is all about! Move N Groove Kids is a creative movement program for children ages 2 to 7 years. Each episode is based on a curriculum developed by Deborah Damast a leading dance education expert who holds a faculty position at NYU s Steinhardt School of Education as Master Teacher of Dance Education. Deborah s dance curriculum and classes are highly acclaimed by teachers, parents, administrators at private studios, daycare centers and pre-schools. Move N Groove features live-action classroom-style learning with entertaining text and character animations that no kid can resist! Move N Groove Kids is designed to help children develop self-confidence, encourage healthy living and promote problem-solving skills. The program encourages team work, bridges language barriers and teaches vocabulary. Move N Groove encourages aesthetic appreciation and individual creative expression. And of course, it gives them plenty of opportunity to dance and jump around - just what kids love doing best. Move N Groove Kids is a dance and exercise video that teachers and parents can use both in-class and at home. Kids follow along to a comprehensive dance and fitness routine that introduces them to various types of movements while encouraging them to explore new and different ways of moving their own bodies. Each video starts off with a warm up, then moves into locomotor and non-locomotor movements. Kids then follow a series of aerobic dance exercises, and conclude with a relaxing cool-down segment. Deb is currently an adjunct professor in NYU s Dance Education Department and has been teaching Creative Movement in private studios, schools, and childrens programs in the New York area for the past ten years. Move N Groove Kids captures her highly acclaimed teaching practice on a video that s fun, engaging, and perfect for every child. The unique creative movement foundation of the Move N Groove Kids programs helps children develop in several ways. The interpretive exercises and fluid teaching style encourage individual creative expression, cognitive development, and self-confidence. The original music, written by acclaimed composers Cary Brown and Dan Schorr, together with the dance and creative movements introduced in the video, will broaden your child s aesthetic sensibility, and improve their flexibility and motor skills. It s a great way to foster a positive attitude towards health and exercise in every child. There are currently 3 titles in the series, Move N Groove Kids Volume 1, Move N Groove Kids go to the Zoo and Move N Groove Kids go to the Park. Review Dynamic and expert...Move N Groove uses creative movement and dance to develop children s cognitive, emotional, and physical capacities in fun, intelligent and integrated ways. --Edward Warburton, Ed. D, Director, Dance Education Program NYU, Steinhardt School of EducationMove N Groove Kids is wonderful! My son has loved going to Creative Movement classes and this tape now makes it possible to bring the joy of that experience right into our own living room. Kids this age are crazy about free-style dancing, but they also like the structure of following along with specific movements. This video marries these two concepts beautifully. --Nancy Meyer - Mother of Isaac, 4 years oldMy son can t sit still when Move N Groove Kids is on he s got to dance. It s everything an educational dance video should be. It is fun to watch and easy to learn. It is wellstructured, clear and really knowledgeable, yet it is irresistibly exuberant. --Marcelle Clements, Nationally Published Film and Television Critic, Mother of Luc, 8 years old About the Actor Deborah Damast, MA, began her dance training in Connecticut with the Ballet Etudes Repertory Company. She has been performing, teaching, and choreographing in NYC for over 15 years. Currently she is the Artistic Advisor of the Dance Education Program at NYU where she is also a professor and Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope Dancers. She has taught extensively to adults and children, and has been on the faculty of New York City Ballet, Temple Habonim Nursery School, The JCC Manhattan, Peridance, Little Red Schoolhouse, The Dance in Education Fund, and the 92nd St. Y. Deborah is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society of educators, and is a member of the National Dance Educators Organization. Deborah is currently conducting professional development workshops for teachers for the NYC Department of Education, the 92nd Street Y, and Peridance Center. She has danced with a number of companies including Peridance Ensemble, Dance Collective, Isadora s Dance Legacy, Nayo and Friends, Susan Tenney, and directs her own company, Deborah Damast and Dancers. She has choreographed and danced for the International Festival of Dance in Bologna Italy and the Aizu Wakamatsu Theatre in Japan. Her work has been shown at over 20 venues in NYC including the Alvin Ailey Center, Dancers Responding to Aids, The World Financial Center, Riverside Church, Washington Square Church, Context, University Settlement, Nikolais Louis Choreospace, and at SUNY Purchase and Queens College. Deborah has enjoyed numerous collaborations with visual artists including Terry Noel, showcased at Westbeth and the Bank. Deborah holds an MA in Dance and Dance Education from NYU, a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, and has received a certificate from the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd St. Y. About the Director Award winning Producer / Director Manny Kivowitz founded KSK Studios in 1988. The company had humble beginnings with Manny as its sole full time employee, a broadcast camera package and a whole lot of ambition. KSK has steadily grown larger ever since and now provides full service production, editorial and graphcis design capabilities all under one roof. A key to KSK's success has been Manny's push to keep the creative and aesthetic bar high for every project that KSK takes on. See more