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Thoughts on Enhancing Dance

Teaching Tip - share the benefits of dance, PART 1 Physical Benefits

2/15/2017

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Share the benefits of dancing with your students and their families.

​PHYSICAL BENEFITS
"Dancers acquire numerous physical benefits from dancing regularly. Dancing uses the entire body and teaches those who dance many of the fundamental movement skills that underlie physical literacy, particularly locomotor skills like galloping and leaping, and balance movements like spinning and rolling. Dancing also supports the development and maintenance of physical fitness, specifically postural alignment, agility, balance and coordination, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and rhythmic abilities. Dancing can help alleviate pain and delay the effects of aging. Like all physical activity, dancing promotes physical health and longevity by postponing chronic disease." (Andrea Downie, 2015)

​Learn more about the physical benefits of dancing in the Healthy Dancer Canada resource, Providing Support to Dancers, by Andrea Downie.
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Thomas Jameson link
6/4/2019 11:56:48 am

It's good to know that dance improves locomotor skills. My daughter is interested in starting at a dance studio, but my wife and I wanted to look further into the benefits of dance before signing her up. we'll be looking further into the benefits of dance in the future.

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Andrea Downie
6/11/2019 10:43:16 am

The academic research is just starting to demonstrate what dancers have known for so long. The holistic benefits of dance are numerous!

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