"Dancing is about connections … to our friends, to our families, to our neighbors. It is one of the most expressive ways we celebrate and communicate our cultures and communities. With Dancing Classrooms, we are able to reach children in existing classroom settings and address fundamental issues of mutual respect and self-esteem – issues that social dance puts into practice. We hope to inspire children through dance to do well, to respect one another, to be proud. This program is about more than dance, it is about teaching children to take a bow.” - Pierre Dulaine & Yvonne Marceau

News & Media

Dancing Classrooms safely returns to Cleveland schools.
Spectrum News
One Ohio organization is making changes to bring dance back into classrooms safely. Clark School in Cleveland is just one school that welcomed dance instructor Jo Jo Carcioppolo back to the classroom. (read more)

How 'Dancing Classrooms' changed steps to keep moving during pandemic
Fox 8 (read more)

The Next Step...Connecting With Care
DCNEO
Next school year we can work together in person through our signature Dancing Classrooms program...well, kinda. We've adapted the program and will now be one step further (okay, it's three feet) to ensure we're "Connecting With Care". (read more)

Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio has pivoted to provide needed break
Currents Magazine
Like Mardis Gras celebrations and the St. Patrick's Day parade, anti-Covid protocols have suspended another regional tradition this Spring. Tango teams and fox-trotting fifth graders will have to sit out the Colors of the Rainbow (read more)

Nonprofit offers free video "brain break" series for students
The Akronist
Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio is working around our socially distanced school year by “BREAK” Dancing for students. The nonprofit has launched a free virtual program that’s available to area grade-school classrooms, and the acronym BREAK stands for Breaks Reset Engagement Attention and Knowledge. (read more)

BREAK Dance offers online students chance to 'shake it up' and prevent digital burnout
Fox 8
BREAK Dance is a FREE dance program available to all classroom teachers of 4-8th graders. It's meant to 'shake it up' for students and get them moving which helps increase attention and focus and prevent digital burnout. (read more)

Free Brain Breaks for Teachers and Students
News 5 Cleveland
Angel Negron Rodriguez lights up when he’s dancing. "It’s fun,” said Angel. It's his saving grace. "Sometimes my eyes hurt a little bit,” said the fourth-grader. Especially now when he spends so much time remote learning. (read more)

2019 Celebration Gala
Currents Magazine
Nia Lugo, a seventh grader from Campus International, took to the stage like a seasoned pro. After all, she had performed with her school's Dancing Classrooms team in the same Orchid Ballroom all of two years ago. (open)

Live On Lakeside
WKYC Channel 3
Dancing Classrooms builds social awareness, confidence and self-esteem in children through the practice of social dance. Alexa and Michael were joined by Jo Jo Carcioppolo - Founding Executive Director, Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio. (read more)

Not about the dance
Smart Business
Students at Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio learn to respect and embrace differences. (read more)

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