Dance as therapy for teenagers with problems

One study concludes that dance is a way to prevent and treat depression or melancholy.

Dancing is a healthy and makes fun. In addition we should add a third adjective, the therapeutic. A study among adolescents and published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine shows that dancing reduces feelings of discomfort and stress common in this critical age.

The research, conducted at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden and led by the therapist and dance instructor, yoga and "core" Anna Duberg was conducted for three years with 112 girls between 13 and 18 years. These teenagers, enrolled in a school in Sweden at the request of the therapist, suffering psychosomatic disorders such as headaches, back, stomach, or a feeling of fatigue, anxiety or depression. The purpose of the study was to assess whether the dance influenced positively and favored the decrease of symptoms.

The classes include contemporary, modern and African jazz. They were held twice a week for eight months. The teenagers began with 15 minutes of heating, 40 minutes from dance to finish with stretching, massage, relaxation. In each session was allowed a few minutes of free dance, in which adolescents could imagine choreography. "The aim was to give a chance to young people experiencing their bodies in a positive way," said Anna Duberg.

At eight months of start dancing, 63% of young people said "feel good". At 12 months, the rate rose to 83% and psychosomatic pain and anxiety were gone.

The analysis published in the Archives of Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine concluded that "dance helps girls to overcome melancholy, stress, fatigue and headaches, and improve mental health and self-esteem" at a crucial time as it is adolescence.

Feel the dance as opposed to only see it!

Most people may think that dancing is all about how it looks beautifully to the people who watch. While it may be true and important, yet the context of dancing itself should not be narrowed only to its appearance. This context should also be broadened to how people who see the dance can actually be connected to the emotion of the dance, to actually feel the dance in addition to only watch it. When the beautiful body movements are accompanied by the appropriate touch of emotions, the true message of the art of dancing can be essentially delivered.

a quote by Dance with me!

Another aspect to be looked at is that also some emotions of human may not be necessarily described by the words of human or even the voice from the mouth. Here, dancing may hold an important roles to express the unspeakable and literally indescribable human's feelings through the movements of body.

Dancing is also to tell a story, to deliver a message, and to express a beauty. Talents may be necessary for the people who call themselves dancer to be the great dancers. Yet these talents must not only viewed as how well or gifted the persons are in showing the audiences their body movements, yet also on how the performance is actually expressed emotionally. If the movements are not complemented by the expressing the emotion, the performance of the dance may fall short of the true meaning of the dancing art, hence may also lead to the failure of delivering the message.

To conclude, incorporating emotion to the movements of body in dancing is essential. Dancers should not only practice to physically move their body, but also need to learn to emotionally move the audiences. After all, dance is all about how it looks and feels to the audiences and even the dancers themselves.

Step it up with Hip Hop dancers

Dancing is one of the most entertaining entertainments surround us. If you realise, once there are dancers who dancing on the street or some other places, people will stop walking and start watching! It can be seen through Step Up movies which are a series of dance-romance film. it is all about street dancers competition, in which every episode has different way to achieve their goals. One of the most interesting one is Step-UP Revolution or it is called "We are the MOB". Here is one of their "demonstration" or MOB. 

The purpose of the MOB is to show to the rich people at the office that money is not everything, they can not destroy people's life by destroying their houses for business purposes. It can be seen that Dance is not only for fun, but also might express your feeling and deliver messages by dancing it off. Moreover, another version of this movie is "Step UP All In". This is about :

"After struggling for a year to make it big in Hollywood, Sean's (Ryan Guzman) dance crew gives up and moves back to Miami. Not ready to relinquish his own dream quite yet, Sean remains in Los Angeles. When he hears about an upcoming dance competition in Las Vegas, Sean teams with talented dancers Andie (Briana Evigan) and Moose (Adam Sevani) to put together a new crew. Now with some old friends and some new faces, Sean and his crew intend to win"