Director & Choreographer Views
Dance is a form of art and entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture).
Music also involves complex generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context.
Benefits of Dance:
1. Dancing can burn as many calories as walking, swimming or riding a bicycle.During a half hour of sustained dancing you can burn between 200 and 400 calories.
2. Flexibility is an important part of being healthy. Dance requires a great amount of flexibility.
3. Dancing helps the body’s circulatory system as it makes your heart pump blood faster and flow to the brain which encourages direct focus and concentration; improving cardiovascular health.
4. The side-to-side movements of many dances strengthen your weight bearing bones and can help prevent or slow loss of bone mass.
5. If you have children, dancing is a wonderful activity that you can do together as a family. Your children will love seeing you dance around and be a little less serious for a change. Dancing gets everyone laughing, making you feel closer as a family as you do something that will improve the health of everyone.
6. Dance class can increase self-confidence and build social skills. because physical activity reduces stress and tension, regular dancing gives an overall sense of well-being.
7. Dance improves our memory by making us recall steps, routines and dance patterns making it a great mental exercise for our brains. The big benefit is that increasing mental exercise keeps your mind young, quick, alert and open.
8. Dancing is recreational and entertaining. It creates a social life for us, while affording us the opportunity to make new friends. Friends helps us grow, make us laugh and support us as we learn.
9. Dance is physical exercise. Exercise increases endurance. Endurance is the ability of muscles to work hard for increasingly longer periods of time without fatigue. Regular dancing is great for improving endurance.
10. Dancing has no cultural barriers. People from all parts of the world, with different ideologies, meet on the dance floor. Cultural interaction improves our health by expanding our mind and sharing our spirit!
