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Dance in the community : dance for everybody : active lifestyles
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Abstract(s)
In a permanent dance education perspective, the Dance for everybody is considered an activity with a huge educational value, which may have an important role in the community contributing for help children development, young people,s life
styles patterns, and to promote active adults. The wellbeing and quality of life of the people in the community, while being a free time practice and it is a full potential to promote a good life styles patterns, and to control their lives and health. It’s getting more and more important to invest in the people active life providing them significant, healthy, accessible, motivating and recreate activities in which the Dance for everybody.
Studies have demonstrated the benefits of this kind of activity for the people in a physical, cognitive, psychological and social way. After our experience and analysing the Dance for all, we understand the advantages and benefits in an educational, communicative, motor, artistic, expressive and cultural way. It turned out to be possible to develop Dance programmes for every body in the community in various institutions such as schools, studios, academies, town halls, recreate associations, among others. These
programmes can be developed with different objectives, with different people of different ages, using adequate, enjoyable and positive methodologies and strategies in order to improve the quality of life, promote a positive health, and increase active lifestyle of a different group with a different age.
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Keywords
Dança - estudo e ensino Dança - comunidade
Pedagogical Context
Citation
AIESEP 2005 World Congress, Lisboa - "Active lifestyles : the impact of education and sport : proceedings".[CD-ROM]. Cruz Quebrada : Edições FMH, 2006. p. 369 - 377
Publisher
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana