Dance Benefits: Tootsie's Top Ten Benefits of Dancing

Tootsie’s Top 10 Benefits of Dancing

1. Dancing brings improved health and fitness – agility, balance, coordination, and posture.

2. Dancing increases your self confidence and improves your feelings of well being, and gives you a sense of accomplishment.

3. Dancing improves your ability to connect with others, enables you to have more social interaction and opportunity to develop friendships.

4. Dancing allows you to express yourself in new ways – nonverbal communication is very powerful.

5. Learning to dance increases one’s appreciation of the talents of others.

6. Dancing helps people stay engaged in physical activity or exercise.

7. Dancing increases one’s awareness of rhythm and music and provides opportunity to hear music you otherwise might not hear.

8. Dancing slows the mental aging process. It improves the mind and reduces memory loss by increasing blood flow and oxygen to the brain and improving mental activity required to learn and perform dance steps.

9. Dancing gives you something to look forward to, a psychological boost!

10. Dancing gives you one more reason to shop for shoes!