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Let's dance! Rhythmic motion can improve your health
By Beverly Merz, Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch For a week each spring there’s dancing in the streets of Harvard Square as Dance for World Community, a project presented by José Mateo Ballet Theatre, demonstrates how people of all ages and abilities — from nimble preteens to people who use wheelchairs — can express themselves through dance. Read more... |
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Why does your brain love it when you dance?
An article from CureJoy.com We all love dancing, even those of us with two left feet. What makes dancing so special? It's thrilling, it's deeply connected with happiness, it's meditative, it's an indicator of health, it's therapeutic. Read more... |
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Science says dancing with friends is good for your health
Written by Bronwyn Tarr, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford You might not think of yourself as a dancer. In fact, maybe even the idea of dancing makes your palms sweat. But growing scientific evidence suggests that getting up and grooving with others has a lot of benefit. Read more... |
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5 Things That Will Happen to Your Brain When You Dance
Written by Rebecca Peris Those of you who like to get your groove on on the dance floor will probably be surprised to find out that you are doing yourself a world of good. Dancing is more than just an enjoyable activity to experience with friends or your partner; dancing has the amazing ability to improve the way your brain functions. Read more... |
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Science explains why dancing is the fast way to make yourself happy
Written by Sarah Sloat Anthropologists consider dance to be a "multi-faceted phenomemon", an invisible, underlying system within us. While forms of dance differ across cultures, Read more... |
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Dance, art boost memories for Alzheimer's patients ~ an article in USA Today Written by Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star Some experts find Alzheimer's patients benefit from dance, painting and other arts. Read more... |
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Get into the Groove: The Benefits of Dance Moving to music can make you happier, smarter, and a whole lot healthier.Published: August 6, 2012 | By Selene Yeager Truth is, shaking your booty is remarkably healthy, and not just in a fitness-and-weight-loss kind of way. Dancing can boost your brainpower, improve your outlook, grow your social circle, and protect your most important organs . . . even if you have no rhythm. Read more... |
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Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter
by Richard Powers, Stanford Dance For centuries, dance manuals and other writings have lauded the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise. More recently we've seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being. Most recently we've heard of another benefit: Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter. A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one's mind by dancing can ward off Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, much as physical exercise can keep the body fit. Dancing also increases cognitive acuity at all ages. Read more... |
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Synchrony and exertion during dance independently
raise pain threshold and encourage social bonding A study by Bronwyn Tarr, Jacques Launay, Emma Cohen and Robin Dunbar Published by The Royal Society Click here to read the study. |
