3 Dancing and Older

The year was 1997 when I first faced the challenge of teaching dance classes to seniors. It was an institutional program that sought to bring the greatest number of associations over the activity of ballroom dancing.

True, the dance has no age, but ages with a range of circumstances and connotations that reveal differences when teaching dance classes and especially when it comes to groups of seniors.

Whenever I missed that at the beginning of this activity, someone tell me, explain to me what I will describe below, I had to find out for myself.

First, the dance helps to improve health. As I explained in "Health and dancing", provides a range of benefits that are especially important in the elderly.

Second, the fact of attending school will leave home and leave the TV armchair, part of a group of people and feeling of belonging to it, discover a new fun and exercise.

And it is very important to eradicate the natural tendency of ostracism in the elderly, keep them feeling the need to "do something", relate to others and leave that "die a little" posed the lost hours with nothing better to do than swallow what to put in the "TV" at that time.

You see, I spoke little or no dance to list its advantages. Because learning the dance itself is not the objective of the activity. It is the medium, is the excuse, is justification, but never an end in itself.

If in addition to improving their health, they leave their homes to exercise, to be integrated into a group, they feel part of it, enjoy and discover a new way to have fun ... if in addition to this, we can to teach them to dance, if only a little, we managed to meet more than our mission, which is nothing to help improve their quality of life.