Tryon Elementary students recently explored the connections between movement and classroom learning during a visit from Ballet Spartanburg.
Kindergarten through second-grade students attended a performance presented through Muse Machine and community arts partner Chapman Cultural Center.
The visiting artists connected their performance with STEAM learning — science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics — while reinforcing vocabulary and concepts that students encounter in the classroom.
The experience gave younger students an opportunity to see how movement, creativity and academic ideas can intersect through the performing arts.
Funding from the Polk County Community Foundation helped make the arts integration program possible.
