The incentive to move is a natural, unconscious reaction to all the forces that act on our bodies. We are always moving. When holding a still shape, you are moving – the muscles that maintain your heart pumping and keep you breathing do not stop their pattern of tension and release. Movement is a measure of life, but movement is not essentially dance. 

Dance is a deliberate activity that involves purpose, intentional rhythm, culturally movement of aesthetic and inherent value; all these make dance an art rather than a sport or a coincidence. Dance is an art that uses nonverbal movement in an amazing way to create a form, order, or statement. Dance discovers the physical, emotional, and social forces that act on a body to disclose a sense of those forces, either for personal benefit or the benefit of an audience. To study dance is to study our nature and to discover the personal dimensions of physical, social, and emotional strength, generosity, and wisdom.

Studying dance you will discover each of those factors, and, in doing so, you will learn something about your self. 

During your study of dance you will find out three aspects: the dancer, the choreographer, and the viewer. You will explore more about your body’s limits and abilities. You will investigate not only physical but also social, emotional, and spiritual facets of yourself.

1. Physical and mental benefits

Dancing can really help to enhance your posture, balance and concentration; which can prevent falls.

Dancing helps the body’s circulatory system as it makes your heart pump blood faster and flow to the brain which encourages direct focus and concentration; improving cardiovascular health.

Dancing fortify your lungs, because you accomplish a cardiovascular activity and it will increase your lungs workload, increasing their capacity.

Strengthen your bones density. Dancing helps to strong the skeleton and reduces the risk of Osteoporosis. This will improve your mobility.

Regular dancing will improve and build muscle tone throughout the body, especially in the legs and buttocks.

Dancing will softly lengthen and fortify your muscles to improve flexibility and increase strength and stamina.

Dancing aid in weight loss and it is a great way for people of all ages to get and stay in shape. Dancing encourages weight control and overall fitness through calorie burn off.

Dancing helps you to relax, reducing stress and tension.

Dancing improve your brain activity.

2. Personal and social benefits

Dancing is a good way you meet with other people, make new friends and improve your social life.

Dancing improve confidence and liberates endorphins and encourage feelings of well-being.

3. Educational benefits

Dance can play a role in altering attitudes to a range of health related subjects including teenage pregnancy, and drug and alcohol abuse.

Dancing is a good workout for people of all ages; dance is even more beneficial and exciting in a group. Dancing mixes all positive features of intense physical exercise. Dancing can help burn as many calories as other traditional exercises as swimming, walking or riding a bicycle; dancing enhances energy levels and improves circulation, tones muscles and fortifies bones. All of which leads to improved endurance and flexibility. A half hour session of continued dancing can burn between 200 and 400 calories and reduces stress and tension. 

If you want to lose weigh you should find an exercise that you actually enjoy doing, because you won’t practice an exercise routine that you don't really like. If you are serious about losing weight through dancing, be sure to select the right style of dance. Some dance forms are much more laborious than others.

A minimum of 3 x 20 minute sessions a week, will recover your cardiovascular results, dance movements increase heart rates like many good aerobic exercises should. If you have a cardiovascular illness you should get checked by your doctor before you begin a dancing since it can be a strenuous exercise and may increase an existing problem. If your objective is to burn calories and lose weight, you need to do more.