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Unlock the transformative power of movement as a life-changing spiritual practice.
If you’re thinking But I’m not a dancer or I feel awkward, I hope to reassure you. You don’t need a special talent to move. You don’t need to be graceful or especially coordinated. You don’t need a body that’s in shape. Dancing helps us embrace all this humanity. Dance connects us to the holy of life.
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3) Dancing is the best medicine: the science of how moving to a beat is good for body, brain, and soul
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"We've all explored dance at some point in our lives--in a class, at a wedding, or at a club, crammed onto the floor and moving with the music. But dance is much more than a pleasurable way to pass the time. It could very well be the secret to a happy and healthy life. In Dancing Is the Best Medicine, Julia F. Christensen and Dong-Seon Chang--neuroscientists by day and dancers by night--explore why dancing is good for the body, mind, and soul. Movement,...
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"Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the ultimate expression of human energy and feeling. From her personal anecdotes, her engaging collection of stories about dance from around the world, or her description of the captivating photograph by Helen Levitt of two children dancing, which she sees as one embodiment of the mystery and joy that dancing can evoke, Aloff's exploration of the aesthetic, social, and...
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"In this moving and inspiring documentary, six diverse dancers travel the world, teaching the tools of choreography to at-risk young people so that they can tell their stories through dance. In India they work with girls rescued from gender violence ; in Romania with gypsy kids from one of Europe's worst slums ; in South Korea, with North Koreans who risked their lives to escape ; and in Iraq, with a gifted young Muslim dancer, fighting to survive....
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