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Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

How Dancing Affects Your Body

As we all know, dancing is very beneficial in the physical aspect. Dancing can improve the condition of your heart and lungs, increase muscular strength, has good weight management, can make your bones stronger, increase your agility and flexibility, improves balance and…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

The Challenges of Competitive Dance

Dance has many benefits, but that doesn’t everything is easy and it that it doesn’t have any challenges that are needed to be overcome. Although dancing is good for the body, at the same time, it isn’t. Dancers are very passionate people and they will do whatever it…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

Is Dance a Sport?

The debate on whether or not dance is considered a sport has been going on for years, and still goes on to this day. The definition of the word “sport” is, “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” All…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

How Dancing Makes You an Overall Better Person

To start off, Dancers are way more sensitive than people with no dance experience. Dance is known do be somewhat of an, “empathy training” activity. This can make dancers more trusting and can make them think more about situations and improve their…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

How Dancing is Considered Therapy

Dancing is not only an art form, or a sport, but a therapy. Exercise overall is considered a therapy because it releases endorphins that can make you feel happier and more energetic. But dance is different, according to the article, “The Benefits Dancing has on Mental…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

How High School Dance Team and Company Dance are Different

As said by multiple professional studio dancers, having variety in different styles of dance can help you develop individualized emotions incorporated into your dancing. On the other hand, dance team can help you develop…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

How Scoring at a Competition Works

In dance competitions, there isn’t a first, second, and third place, but there also is. It is actually quite complicated when it comes to judging and scoring. At a competition, there are different categories, in which sometimes there can be a top 8, top 10, or top 5…

Molly Richardson in The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dec 14, 2018

How Dancing Impacted/Impacts Me Personally

I started dancing when I was three years old, and I started competitive dance when I was eight years old. So I can’t really remember a time where I wasn’t dancing. I remember telling my mom that I originally didn’t want to do dance because I didn’t want…

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The Positive Impacts of Dance

Dancing can have many positive impacts on the body, it can get you into the correct mindset about things, and it can benefit you emotionally.

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