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PBS doc ‘PS Dance’ wants public school kids to get moving

Jody Gottfried Arnhold wants to make it the dance education capital as well. After a 20-year career teaching dance at PS 75 on the Upper West Side, Arnhold made it her mission to promote dance education in other public schools, including with the documentary “PS Dance!” Premiering Friday at 10:30 p.m. on PBS (WNET/Ch. 13). “It started as simply wanting to answer the question of ‘What is dance education?’ Because too many people just don’t know,” says Arnhold, who financed the film. Narrated by Paula Zahn, the one-hour special examines the effect that dance education programs have on children and teens through interviews with five dance teachers from schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens and their students (ranging in grades from pre-K to high school). Modal Trigger “You see the joy of the dance program is an impetus to come to school,” Arnhold says. “These are model programs and we’d like to see more of them,” she says. Why we need to let kids be creative.

It's a brisk winter morning in New York City and a class of bubbly preschoolers have burst into Room 5 of the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School for a period of free play.

Why we need to let kids be creative

Amid an explosion of drawing, coloring, and play-dough kneading, Maxine, 3, and Harper, 4, two towheaded girls in pink skirts, are building a tower out of colorful wood blocks. Their structure, however, is top-heavy, and it begins to wobble. The pair stops and scrutinizes their work. Harper dismantles the tower and starts to rebuild. "Let's put it like this," she tells Maxine, using the biggest blocks to create a solid foundation. Parenting.com: Why cutting class might be good for your child This may not seem like a remarkable activity -- kids build stuff and pull it apart on a daily basis. The word "creativity," in our society, tends to be applied to artistic endeavors. Whether that potential is being fulfilled is another story entirely. Parenting.com: 5 smart ways to handle teacher troubles. Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?