Dancing Music, Orlando

Dancing Music Benefits

By the Dancing Doctor, Diana Jo Rossano

A good dance is only as good as the music. Dancing is the celebration of the music. If you like music with a Latin flavor, thing about learning to dance the Salsa, Merengue, Rumba, Cha Cha, Samba, and Bolero.

If the music of the 80’s hits your fancy, a better dance choice would be a hustle or sometimes called disco. Yes, that music is still being danced to in many ballroom venues.

If you like smooth Jazz, then think seriously about learning West Coast Swing. If you like the Elvis Presley hits, then East Coast Swing may be more your style.

Does the list stop here? Absolutely not! East Coast Swing has many other styles of dance — like the jitterbug? Shag? Lindy hop? And many, many more that have that fast music from the 20’s and 30’s.

Sometimes you will hear the music that I have mentioned above just as “Ballroom” because there is a mixture and variety of music at one dance venue. Something for everyone!

Jo Rossano teaches beginning ballroom dancing in Orlando. She has an entirely different way of teaching dancing. She teaches from the point of view of showing you the step and allowing your muscles to remember the dance moves. It’s the same way you learned how to ride your bicycle. It’s the same with learning how to dance. You remember the feeling, and then remember the step. A long memory retention is expected when you learn this way.

The “Dancing on the Right-side of your Brain” method has been very successful with Jo Rossano’s students. Why not sign up now to see if you can win a free private lesson Click here for more information.

Good music has direct access to the emotions. As such it's a fantastic tool for tweaking our moods. Saarikallio and Erkkila (2007) investigated the ways people use music to control and improve their mood by interviewing eight adolescents from Finland. The participants may be a small, very specific group, but they actually present a really useful list:

Entertainment - At the most fundamental level music provides stimulation. It lifts the mood before going out, it passes the time while doing the mundane chores around the house. It is the foundation to dancing..

Good things music can do for your mood:

1. Revival - Music revitalizes in the morning and calms in the evening. It encourages you when you choose music with the right words to inspire you.

2. Strong sensation - Music can provide deep, thrilling emotional experiences, particularly while dancing. These positive experiences increase brain endorphins—a healthy way to help balance emotional stability. That’s why you feel invigorated after a dance!

3. Diversion - Music distracts the mind from unpleasant thoughts, problems and decisions. Your brain gets a needed break that helps you to “process” your problems and decisions for a better decision and problems that seem smaller.

4. Discharge - Music encourages the brain to release negative emotions: purging and cleansing your thoughts and allows for a positive sense of well being.

5. Mental work - Music encourages daydreaming, sliding into old memories, exploring the past from a different point of view — today.

6. Solace - Shared emotion, shared experience, a connection to someone lost.

These strategies all aim for two goals: controlling and improving mood. One of the beauties of music is it can accomplish more than one goal at a time. Uplifting music can both divert, entertain and revive. Sad, soulful music can provide solace, encourage mental work and discharge emotions. The examples are endless.

Music has also been strongly connected with reflective states. These tend to allow us greater understanding of our emotions.

I don’t know of a better way to improve your emotions, get a work out to burn calories and tone your muscles than on the dance floor.

Hope to see you on the dance floor,

Jo Rossano

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