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...Teaching dance to fifth graders is not like taking advanced classes. The steps you teach them are simple. It's more of an exciting exchange between people," says Rebecca C. Shannon '89, one of Citystep's three directors. "You're teaching kids to be proud of their bodies...
Although most of the children who participate in the Citystep program do so in the course of their school day, Citystep also runs a Saturday program for sixth and seventh grade veterans of the program...
...functions, it provides a second undergraduate role model for kids. Over the year it developed into something like a big brother, big sister program," says Newdick, who also acts as the youth supervisor coordinator. "And Citystep benefits [from having supervisors] because discipline is needed backstage especially at the Loeb to keep the kids quiet...
...Saturday program is particularly good for the show because it brings experienced dancers back to the show, organizers say. The veteran Citystep children show much improvement from their first year to their second, says Roth...
...Their basic level of co-ordination is different. The kids who went through Citystep as fifth graders pick up steps quicker. They're used to thinking in counts. They are used to thinking in terms of right or left or up and down," Roth says. "I can teach a step in half the time that people in school programs do," she adds...