Shut Up and Dance At the age of three, I walked on stage to perform my very first dance recital. Little did my parents know that I wasn’t there to dance but to fluff up the tutus of my fellow dancers. I was very concerned with the beauty of myself and my classmates. That’s why I made sure to help them look their prettiest. That was my main concern as a young child but as time as gone on, I have grown up. I now care about more things then my dance class or team being pretty. I care about my classmates, the choreography, and my passion. I have been dancing for fourteen years now. I love dancing; it has given me confidence and many other factors that have shaped me as a person. Dance is incredibly beneficial because of the positive physical,
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Dancing is a “fun kind of exercise”, and because it is exercise it has many science proven facts. Exercising doubles the blood volume in the brain. It also doubles the oxygen to the brain. Rigorous dancing can reduce heart rates, lower blood pressure, and can improve cholesterol levels. This vigorous dancing can also improve endurance, and strength (Jimenez 1-2). It also promotes plasticity (Verghese 7). Dancing also physically helps with weight loss. On an average, dance can last for about two to four hours, and about half an hour of dancing burns two hundred to four hundred calories. All together if someone were to dance for a maximum four hours they would burn around three thousand two hundred calories. Flexibility can be a very large benefit of dancing. Most dance “classes start with a warm-up that including loosening techniques to balance and stretch muscles on each side of the joints” (Jimenez 2). Some benefits come from the music that is in dancing. When dancing, you connect to the music and it helps with your rhythm and coordination (Jimenez …show more content…
These benefits include developing friends, the most common social benefit (Jimenez 2). Team work is also a large benefit from social activities from dance (“Magic of Dance…” 1). Team work provides a good social interaction which helps people with self-confidence (Lees 1). Team work also provides self-esteem that can develop throughout dance classes (“Magic of Dance…” 1). Through dance they gain better social skills. They also increase their trust in people by dancing. When dancing with a group they gain motivation together becoming closer and better dancers (Macdonald
Dancing is a “fun kind of exercise”, and because it is exercise it has many science proven facts. Exercising doubles the blood volume in the brain. It also doubles the oxygen to the brain. Rigorous dancing can reduce heart rates, lower blood pressure, and can improve cholesterol levels. This vigorous dancing can also improve endurance, and strength (Jimenez 1-2). It also promotes plasticity (Verghese 7). Dancing also physically helps with weight loss. On an average, dance can last for about two to four hours, and about half an hour of dancing burns two hundred to four hundred calories. All together if someone were to dance for a maximum four hours they would burn around three thousand two hundred calories. Flexibility can be a very large benefit of dancing. Most dance “classes start with a warm-up that including loosening techniques to balance and stretch muscles on each side of the joints” (Jimenez 2). Some benefits come from the music that is in dancing. When dancing, you connect to the music and it helps with your rhythm and coordination (Jimenez …show more content…
These benefits include developing friends, the most common social benefit (Jimenez 2). Team work is also a large benefit from social activities from dance (“Magic of Dance…” 1). Team work provides a good social interaction which helps people with self-confidence (Lees 1). Team work also provides self-esteem that can develop throughout dance classes (“Magic of Dance…” 1). Through dance they gain better social skills. They also increase their trust in people by dancing. When dancing with a group they gain motivation together becoming closer and better dancers (Macdonald