Dance therapy

confidence • Improve your balance, coordination, posture, and flexibility • Improve your overall cardiovascular health • Help relieve stress. Dancing can be both exercise and therapy. • Help reduce joint pain • Let you make friends A Dance Suggestion Now that you know some of the benefits of dance as a form of exercise, here is one dance that can…

weekend at dance competitions. It was and always will be apart of me. It was my passion and something that pushed me to have a strict schedule that taught me discipline and time management. I had goals I had to work towards in order to gain skill in my dance technique. This taught me how to set goals in school and in my life in general. I thank dance for making who I am today. I learned how to take orders and constructive criticism. I had my coaches as strong role models to look up to. Dance…

us about yourself I was about five when I first fell in love. That was the year that I focused on dance, after my physician’s recommendation that it could help my Scoliosis. I can still remember stepping into the dance studio for the first time and feeling happy and excited. I was ready to test my physical limits and be free. Due to my medical conditions, outside of the dance studio I was bombarded with “could nots”. I could not do sports because a hit to the back of the head could…

technique can compromise the whole joint, making it weaker by applying pressure to places that are not meant to handle it (Eigner). As dancers become more serious with their training, they begin to dance more often, this can lead to overuse injuries. Pre-professional and professional dancers typically dance at least 20 hours a week. Dancing every day can put a lot of stress and strain on the dancer’s body, leading to injuries such as pulled muscles, tears, and stress fractures. Another…

brought Contra-Danze, the country dance of France and England, with them. Later known as danzon, it mixed with rhumbas of African origin. After yet another global spread of this dance, different places and countries all over the world gradually tinkered and changed the style to their liking, but kept the partner dance and tempo the same. The dance later received the name “salsa” in New York, given that it was a mixture, like the sauce “salsa”, of different styles of dance and music. Thus, salsa…

Many people may believe that dance is a fairly safe sport; however, dance leads to many injuries. Dance is hard on the body, and puts stress on every joint, bone, and muscle. If there is not proper training, an injury is more likely to occur. Also, if steps are executed incorrectly, injuries may commonly happen. It is very crucial to execute every step correctly. Snapping hip syndrome is a common injury found in dancers. Snapping hip syndrome is what the name sounds like. Snapping hip syndrome…

swung my leg around and jaggedly jumped over it multiple times before I could get the move down. I felt super proud of myself when I was the first one in my class to master the move, well the best a five year old can master a move. My memories of dance have grown since then. I remember the first time I set my eyes on pointe shoes. I was ten and I was having my first Saturday…

These types of light shows started to grow with the aid of hallucinating drugs such as LSD or Ecstasy. In 2006, a light artist named Hermes put the lights into the gloves fingertips, this started a revolution in the way of dance and therapy. Hermes expressed in an interview with Emazinglights, who is one of the major gloving suppliers, “gloving is actually a new way of dancing…when they see it, it blows their mind.” Gloving has been picked up by music video directors, talent show…

Obstacles and disadvantages can be turned into a positive.Obstacles and disadvantages are a way of considering that you’ve made a big mistake in life and want to rewind to the past where you didn’t want to worry about anything and just be positive and someday in the future you’ll have a bright future ahead.The obstacles and disadvantages matter since when you’re in a situation you have to accomplish it and overcome it ,therefore; when you have a disadvantage you can make it better in the most…

routine? Your bow falling out Use fear as motivation. Because it only makes you stronger.¨ -unknown During the first cheerleading practice of my sophomore year, I had fallen from a stunt, dislocated my elbow and tore ligaments. I went to physical therapy and was released for cheerleading camp. I was allowed to fly and do the motions. I wasn't allowed to base or tumble. Cheerleading camp consisted of three days, the first and second day were for practicing and the third day was a showcase for…