Blue Man Creativity Center’s educational model is made up of two components: the core curriculum, which represents the basic academic subjects the program will cover, and the six areas of connection— Creativity and Expression, Family and Community, Playfulness, Exuberance and Fun, Physical and Emotional Well-being, Global and Environmental Exploration, and Individual Interests and Learning Styles— which describes the center’s approach and the key elements “connected” to the subjects in the curriculum. Each of these areas relates in some way to the idea of connection, whether it be the connection to a community, to one’s emotions, to one’s artistic voice, to one’s body, to the world, to one’s interests, or to one’s sense of joy and wonder. The center’s model emerged out of a desire to achieve a new kind of balance between academic rigor and academic enchantment. The center believes that both are essential attributes of a truly exceptional education.