Harmful Dance and Culture
Internet Sense First: Online Protection for Dance Students
Expert research shows that dance is a wonderful activity for children when:
1. Children are enrolled in a healthy dance studio (see danceawareness.com) in age-appropriate costumes, choreography and music;
2. Parents supervise the online digital activities of their children to ensure communications are safe and appropriate.
About DA:NCE
Recent Articles & Events
- Presentation for the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Conference [sponsored by the National Center of Sexual Exploitation]: July 21, 2021 — DA:NCE Healthy or Harmful, National Experts Talk About Children’s Dance, a presentation by Mary Bawden
Interview on The Hard Question: April 26th, 2021 — The Hard Question interview with Mary Bawden
Video Course with Charlene Doak-Gebauer, April 5th, 2021* — Internet Sense First: Online Protection for Dance Students
- Interview with Dawn Sessler, Spotlight: March 2nd, 2021 — Spotlight on “kids’ sexual unawareness” with Mary Bawden
- Presentation for Rogers TV — Freedom Fighters: Code Gray by Mary Bawden
- Presentation for Texas Governor’s Office: September 10, 2020 — Heathy or Harmful: National Experts talk about Children’s Dance By Mary Bawden
- Published: September 22, 2020 — Cuties Is Not Cute: DA:NCE Says Children Are Not Mini-Adults By Mary Bawden
- Published: November 25, 2019 — Healthy or Harmful Dance: What do the Experts Say?, By Mary Bawden
- Published: January 09, 2019 — The Scary Trend in Children’s Dance, By Mary Bawden
*Expert research shows that dance is a wonderful activity for children when:
1. Children are enrolled in a healthy dance studio (see danceawareness.com) in age-appropriate costumes, choreography and music;
2. Parents supervise the online digital activities of their children to ensure communications are safe and appropriate.