Tanner Dance - The University of Utah

The Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program, a part of the University of Utah, is recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts for its leadership. The program offers a range of professional development workshops designed to address arts integration. It provides various opportunities for teaching and learning techniques. The Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program s workshops are available to teachers, teaching artists, administrators and curriculum developers of pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Its classes focus on the development of child. The program s dancers are taught the vocabulary of dance through movement exploration. The Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program s dancers improvise and engage in creative problem solving and grow in cognitive and emotional ways as they interact in class. Its each class has a musical accompanist to expose dancers to a variety of musical genres.