The article highlights the importance of dance performance in the Reggio Emilia
pedagogical concept and introduces the dance education as part of the comprehensive
learning that has a positive impact on every area of the child's development, i.e. the
social and emotional, the cognitive and the psychomotoric one. In the article the
parallels are drawn between Malaguzzi's theory on 100 languages of the child's
expression, Gardner's theory on multiple intelligences and Glasser's theory on four basic
human needs. The mentioned theories are linked to the objectives of the dance
education in the kindergarten. Positive impacts of expressing through a move are
referred to: developing creativity, non-verbal communication among children and
between a child and an adult, use of all senses, expressing emotions and moods, raising
physical awareness and fostering different forms of expression. The above mentioned are all important foundations of the Reggio Emilia pedagogical concept, the starting
point of which is a child.
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