How Dance
Improves Overall
Health
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvX81YyC7sY
What does it Improve?
1. Weight
- lose weight, stay fit, examples
2. Diseases
- Parkinson's disease, cancer, obesity, autism
3. Socially
- build up self, meet people, skills
4. Mentally
- Increases cognitive acuity at all ages
5. Mood
- Happiness, increases self-confidence
6. Posture
- Proper posture/body alignment
Cancer
How Dance helps:
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Reduces stress
Abnormal growth of
cells in the body
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Improves self awareness
Symptoms:
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Strengthens immune
system
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Helps anxiety &
depression
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Feeling of completeness
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Develop positive body
image
Definition:
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Chills
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Fatigue
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Weight loss
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Night Sweats
• Consult a doctor
• Different stages
• Still being studied
Parkinson’s
Disease
How Dance helps:
Definition: A disorder
of the nervous system
that disrupts your
movement
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Improve joint mobility
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Improves flexibility
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Improves balance
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Increase walking speed
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Socially
Symptoms:
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Tremors
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Slow movement
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Rigid muscles
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Loss of autonomic
movements
Autism
How dance Helps:
Definition:
Combination of music and dance
a developmental disorder
Symptoms:
- Social challenges
- Difficultly
communicating
- Repetitive behaviors
- Limited interest in
activities
- *Dance/movement therapy
- Hearing, listening, processing &
repetition
- Verbalizing
- Improves body image
Dementia
Definition:
How dance helps:
a loss of brain function
that occurs with certain
diseases.
- Improves cognition
Symptoms:
- Reduces depression
- Difficulty with language
- Improves physical function
- Memory problem
- Enhance confidence/self-esteem
- Thinking and
judgment(cognitive
skills)
- Better social skills
- Emotional behavior or
personality
Zumba
Fitness program that features
Latin American dance
movements
Effects:
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Vigorous workout
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Strengthens heart
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Boost mood
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Loose weight
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Party atmosphere
Image source:
www.imaginetheplace.com
Ballet
Gentle, tall, sharp movements
that focus around French
vocabulary
Effects:
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Improves mental ability
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Improves posture
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Tones Muscles
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Physical
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Calming
Image source:
http://images.fanpop.com
Ballroom
Dance
Formal social dancing using a
partner to perform European
fold dances
Effects:
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Improves coordination
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Improves posture
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Improves balance
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Helps depression
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Low or high impact
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Osteoporosis
Image source:
oaklandtech.com
Hip-Hop
Originates from street dancing
that includes movements such
as: breaking, locking, popping,
and low to the ground and hard
movements
Effects:
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Improves heart & lungs
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Increase muscular strength
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Increases endurance
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Improves coordination
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Improves balance
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Improves confidence/esteem
Belly Dance:
Dance based on torso
articulation—originated from the
Middle East
Effects:
-Tones abdominal/back muscles
-Improves posture
-Natural hip tucks—similar to
pelvic rocking taught during
prenatal classes
- Reduces stress
Salsa:
Popular form of social dance
that originated in New York with
strong influences from Latin
America.
Effects:
- Builds endurance and stamina
- Helps with weight loss
- Relieves stress
- Helps you release toxins via
sweating
- Reduces blood pressure
- Improve cholesterol levels
Jazz
dance that is matched to the
rhythms and techniques of jazz
music, developed by American
blacks in the early part of the
20th century.
Effects:
- Builds strong muscles
- Improves posture
- Improves coordination
- Improves flexibility
- Improves mental functioning
Square Dance
a dance by a set of four couples
arranged in a square or in some set
form.
Effects:
- Improves bone health
- Decreases depression
- Protect against Dementia
- Cardiovascular fitness
- Improves Better coordination,
agility and flexibility
Let’s Dance to the Future…
Dance Therapy:
Annual Conferences:
- Seminars
- Dancing
- Networking
- Dancers, artists, psychotherapists, yoga instructors
www.adta.org (American dance therapy association)
Let’s Dance to the Future…
Dance Therapy:
American Cancer Society
(www.cancer.org)
Coping:
- Patient
- Family
- Caregiver
- Friends
Let’s Dance to the Future
Dance Away Dementia
- Reading - 35% reduced risk of dementia
- Bicycling and swimming - 0%
- Doing crossword puzzles at least four days a week 47%
- Playing golf - 0%
- Dancing frequently - 76%. That was the greatest
risk reduction of any activity studied, cognitive or
physical.
http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm
Activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huO8rmrFDSc
Jason dance link, start at 40sec.