Dance News

A wave of viral videos highlight a style that participants call addictive and innovative. Descended from the Lindy Hop, it has few traditional markers of swing...

A new study indicates that dancing is one of the best forms of treatment for depression...

Humans have a special relationship with dance. It is not obvious why we do it, or why we enjoy it, but all around the world, humans dance. Over many years, scientists have attempted to leverage the benefits of dance into interventions for people with dementia...

The key findings from this review indicate that dance is a feasible alternative to traditional physical activity. The findings also indicate that dance provides physiological and psychological benefits to healthy and medically compromised populations. ...

Most of the studies implementing dance as part of the therapeutic treatment has shown to improve or slow the worsening in the quality of life of patients with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. Future research focused on these patients should use a more exhaustive methodology and make a more detailed description of these kind of interventions.