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9 Health Benefits of Dance - Fitness Center - Everyday Health
Studies show that dance can help you lose weight, stay flexible, reduce stress, make friends, and more. Discover the health benefits of dance.
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Health benefits of dance
- Boost Memory
- Improve Flexibility
- Reduce Stress
- Diminish Depression
- Help Your Heart, especially for those at risk for cardiovascular disease.
- Helps to Lose Weight
- Improves Balance. Frequent dancing will help you stabilize and gain better control of your body.
- Increase Energy
- A dance class is the perfect setting to make new friends and branch out socially.
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Getting started with dancing
- Dance in a group, with a partner, or on your own.
- Enjoy dancing at dance schools, social venues, community halls and in your own home.
- It can be a great recreational and sporting choice.
- The gear you need for dancing will depend on the style of dancing you choose.
Types of dance
- Ballet – this dance style focuses on strength, technique and flexibility.
- Ballroom dancing – this involves a number of partner-dancing styles such as the waltz, swing, foxtrot, rumba and tango.
- Belly dancing – originating in the Middle East.
- Hip-hop – this urban dance style can involve breaking, popping, locking and freestyling.
- Jazz – a high-energy dance style involving kicks, leaps and turns to the beat of the music.
- Pole dancing – It involves sensual dancing with a vertical pole, and requires muscle endurance, coordination, and upper- and lower-body strength.
- Salsa – involving a mixture of Caribbean, Latin American and African influences, salsa is usually a partner dance and emphasises rhythms and sensuality.
- Square-dancing – a type of folk dancing where four couples dance in a square pattern, moving around each other and changing partners.
- Tap dancing – focuses on timing and beats.