Can Dancing Prevent Dementia?

A new study is looking at the cognitive benefits of group dance classes, in hopes of discovering new tools to prevent dementia.

 Healthy Reasons To Get Dancing Around Your Living Room Today

It’s clear that moving the body not only enhances physical fitness it contributes to mental health and emotional wellbeing. And the array of classes to support you to do so continues to increase as the boutique fitness market grows.

 Is Dancing the Kale of Exercise?

Research shows that dance offers a wealth of anti-aging benefits. It’s also fun.

 These 9 Dance Science Studies Could One Day Change Our Approach in the Studio

As a dancer working with your toes to the marley day in and day out, it is easy to feel like no one but your immediate colleagues understands your challenges. Yet there are countless medical professionals working to improve the lives of dancers.

 Travel the World Through These Dance Tutorials

Moving your body can provide great comforts, both emotionally and physically. Not only does dancing provide health benefits, improving everything from cardiovascular strength to bone density to brain activity, moving your body has also been proven to reduce stress and anxiety — which everyone could benefit from right now.

A Lifelong Fitness Fan Meets Her Match With Tap

A New York retiree puts in her hours at her gym, but she’s happiest when she’s moving her feet with friends in a dancing class.

A Dance for Health

The dance-cardio workout is like interval training, with nonstop movement and little rest.

Belly Dancing to Recover From Cancer Treatment

A breast-cancer survivor’s unlikely therapy for people looking to return to life before chemo.

Dance around the world with these 10 international styles

But even without an official event to attend, you can celebrate today — or any day you feel like — from the comfort of your own home by watching these different styles of dance from around the world.

Dance Like Your Doctor Is Watching: It's Great for Your Mind and Body

Two new studies say that dancing may keep you healthy well into old age, potentially by reducing the risk of disability and dementia.

Dance Music and Drugs Are Long Overdue a Healthier Relationship

Some say music is food for the soul. For others – and in particular those who listen to dance music and any of its offshoot genres – it’s part and parcel of getting smashed.

Dance Your Way to a More Balanced Life!

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the evidence-based wellbeing benefits of dance, particularly in neuroscience research. It appears that, at any stage of life, Dance as a holistic physical activity has the capacity to positively impact the human being on every level: physical, mental, emotional, even spiritual.

Dancing Isn’t Just Fun — It’s Really Good For Your Health

Like any good, low-impact cardio workout, dancing can improve cardiovascular health, increase stamina, strengthen bones and muscles and stave off illnesses. But aside from the perks associated any heart-pounding activity, dancing has a cardio edge with unique benefits that actually can’t be achieved by other low-impact exercises.

Get dancing for a happier (and longer) life

"Dancing is becoming increasingly popular as a great alternative to sport or the gym," says Emma Redding, a dance scientist from the contemporary dance college Laban. "Not only does it enhance many aspects of physical fitness but it also improves our wellbeing and triggers the same post-exercise high."

Health Benefits of Dancing

All dancers know the feeling..... The elation that comes from moving to music in rhythm, the relaxation that results from concentrating on the beat and forgetting one's cares.

The Health Benefits Of Dancing Go Beyond Exercise And Stress Reducer

New social science research shows that dancing in synchrony with others increases people's threshold for dealing with pain.

The Hidden Health Benefits of Dance

Even if you’re up in years and out of shape, you should be dancing, according to a new study. The research, presented the American Heart Association Association’s Epidemiology/Lifestyle 2016 Scientific Sessions, found that older Latinos who didn’t exercise made big improvements when they enrolled in salsa classes.

Walk, Stretch or Dance? Dancing May Be Best for the Brain

Could learning to dance the minuet or fandango help to protect our brains from aging? A new study that compared the neurological effects of country dancing with those of walking and other activities suggests that there may be something unique about learning a social dance. The demands it places on the mind and body could make it unusually potent at slowing some of the changes inside our skulls that seem otherwise inevitable with aging.

Walk, Stretch or Dance? Dancing May Be Best for the Brain

“The message is that we should try not to be sedentary,” she said. “The people who came into our study already exercising showed the least decline” in white matter health, she points out, and those who took up dancing showed white-matter gains. Of course, this study was relatively short-term.

Why Dancing Is the Best Thing You Can Do For Your Body

If running is like driving on a freeway, dancing is more like motoring through a busy city, he says. All of that starting, stopping and changing directions burns a ton of fuel even though you’re not covering a lot of ground.

Why Dancing Leads to Bonding

Both exertion and synchronicity play a role in the social effects of dance.