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Dance is a healthy physical activity, with many far reaching physical, and psychological benefits. Dancing can be enjoyed in many forms, and is for every age and ability. This physical activity appeals to some who may not typically be active, and therefore may be another alternative of exercise. [ 1] Dance for health has become an important ...
In schools students can enhance bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, reorganize neural pathways to improve learning, and express knowledge through dance. Dance helps students to develop a sense of self as an emotional and social being. In preschool, children developed language, movement and collaborative skills to express their ideas. They created ...
Younger children have a harder time remembering full dance routines, so it is important that they focus more on listening to the beats of the music and practicing beginner moves to the rhythm. Although dance education in general does not have an extremely rigid framework, [ 13 ] dance in primary education embodies this flexibility and strongly ...
Dance/movement therapy ( DMT) in USA [ 1] and Australia [ 2] or dance movement psychotherapy ( DMP) in the UK [ 3] is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. [ 4] As a modality of the creative arts therapies, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion.
Dance is an important aspect of some religious rites in ancient Egypt, [6] similarly dance is also integral to many ceremonies and rites among African people. [7] Ritual dances may also be performed in temples and during religious festivals, for example the Rasa ritual dances of India (a number of Indian classical dances may have their origin ...
Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle, usually a performance upon a stage by virtuoso dancers. It often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or it may interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed and performed in a theatre setting but it is ...
Dance improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating movement. Development of movement material is facilitated through a variety of creative explorations including body mapping through levels, shape and dynamics schema. Improvisation is a free, seemingly unstructured, less technically strict and impulsive form that draws inspiration ...
Dance is present in mythology and religion globally. Dance has certainly been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since before the birth of the earliest human civilizations. Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 5,000-year-old Bhimbetka rock shelters paintings in India and ...