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Anna Sanchez

Mrs. Rogers

English IV

07 October 2012

                                         Cultural Dancing

       Generations go through many changes some know their entire cultural background and

ancestry while other generations know absolutely nothing about who they are or where they

originate from. This being the case with today’s generations people are uninformed about their

culture or other people’s culture. People could care less about others and their believes but this

could be changed if young people would participate in dance activities. This would allow people

to learn about their history, ancestry and cultural backgrounds. Being involved in a fun activity

such as dancing could help change behavioral issues with people. If anyone where to participate

in a dance class they would be entertained in something productive and not have time to get into

trouble. Not only that but in this activity people would be having fun while they are being

informed of other cultures.

       Cultural dancing is learning while having fun. This activity works to helppeople express

themselves in new ways not involving language and verbal usage. Cultural dancing would help

people by teaching them to develop thinking, personal and interpersonal skill. People would be

learning to cooperate with one another and learn to trust others. This activityis something fun

where everyone fits in. However the only challenging thing would be if they are having trouble

with flexibility, agility, coordination, grace, sense of tempo or being able to feel the music move

through them(Herrick).
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       One great fun activity that anyone could participate in could be the most popular thing

right now,Zumba dance. Zumba is a very fun activity that involves dancingto bicultural music,

so every time you work out, it will be to different music. Although Zumba is very popular right

now this was not always the case. When Columbian migrant Beto Perez came to Miami looking

for is big break in 1999. He was turned down by everyone he went to see about his program. No

one was giving him the chance. One day he approached entrepreneur Alberto Perlman and he

was given an opportunity to show Perlman what Zumba was. While Perez showed Mr. Perlman

the program, a crowd gathered wanting to know where they could go to sign up for this activity,

Perez was hired to start the Zumba program(Magazine).

       When a person joins Zumba they will be introduced to a new way of dance involving

exercise. A person will have a great work out dancing to different Latin rhythms such as:

merengue, salsa, flamingo, samba, tango, reggae, cumbia, belly dancing, tribal and many more.

In this activity you will never repeat anything every time you go in for a session you have

something new to do. Starting from the warm up routine all the way down to cooling down after

this you’ll feel great. Zumba also provides many physical and mental health benefits and is

estimated that a person will lose between 50-100 calories if you keep going regularly(Magazine).

While doing Zumba you willexperience body toning and have a balance between co-ordination

for your heart and mind. This activity provides everyone a great whole body workout working

with everything from your head all the way down to your feet. Everyone would have a big

benefit because it doesn’t matter if you like to work out or not or if you’re a beginner all the way

to an advance learner zumba works to benefit everyone the same way. However,the creators

know that not everyone feels comfortablebeing with athletics or advanced learners. So

Zumbadecided to offer eight different classes from the mildest Zumba fitness which is like being
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at a party and just moving around while working out and although this is easy you’ll still leave

soar. And the toughest called Sentao which is choreographed to strengthen your core and set up

a cardio work out. Also Zumba is not only a physical body improvement it is also mentally

good for people. It produces endorphins (feel-good) hormones, which are released into the blood

stream after a person finishes with a dancing. This is benefitual to people suffering from

depression because it’ll help their stress levels lower(Bowling). This activity is estimated to have

you wanting to visit Latin places and wanting to learn so much about where this bicultural music

came from it also guarantees that you’ll have no clue you are participating in a different cultures

activity.

        Since Zumba is mostly working out, cultural dancing not so much cultural dancing

teaches a person to move along with the music are learning its meanings. A person will be very

interested learning about key movements and of secret meanings their body language could have

while they express themselves in different ways.

        For someone to be able to like cultural dance class they would have to be willing to

acknowledge other cultures, not be self-centered and want to learn about them. Therefor cultural

dance focuses on teaching people the meaning of certain dances, their originations and their

importance. In cultural dance a main focus would be to teach people that every dance is not the

same and that each symbolizes different things. This information would be giving depending on

the personal believe concerning certain types of music. Cultural dace will teach students that

back then every dance had a different meaning to their ancestors. This at many times ranked in

announcing the birth of someone important, the celebration of a marriage, announcing a war or

even trying to change the weather forecast.Everyone would learn that human creativity and

dance symbolisms had a great role in the meanings of music. By learning this they’ll learn that
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everything their ancestors did had a very special meaning to their music. This dance activity

includes teaching people of different dance origins. This includes learning about dance place of

birth, year/century it got started in and the kind of people that got the dances’ started.

       This type of dance class is very unique and important because it will teach young people

of its importance in society and why it should be something all generations participate in.

Cultural dance should not be allowed to die because off all the things it has to teach. Like how

each ethical group belonged to a certain type of music which included its own dress code and

way of behavior that reinforced their acceptance in other communities. Not only this but it

would help today’s societies not forget about their family history and cultural background. This

would include people to be informed of their economic and political consequences that today’s

generations have gone through. Because today’s type of dance and music doesn’t have anything

to do with political consequences and back then it did. This would inform everyone about many

things and they would end up knowing about how many things in history got started just because

of a simple dance.

       A very fun, interesting new dance that was lately introduced into the world of cultural

dance is Tribal. It is a mixture of jumping around and basically going around incircles. It was

introduces by Indian tribes but was unknown until about to years ago. When in Texas some

Latin Americans came up with a new catchy dance with a new type of techno music. Along with

introducing new music the dance came along with some strange new footwear, boots or better

known as BotasPicudas/ Tribaleras. The dance is not so popular in the American community

but they are huge in the Latin community. And as soon as more people hear about it more and

more people will want to be moving around to this new techno tribe dance(Treks).
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       Dances come in different forms, depending on the type of music that comes along with

them. Therefore everyone will be introduced to many dances and music styles. Forms of dance

in cultural dance included ballet, modern jazz, and various ethical music groups. Also the class

would teach the young people to be able to tell the difference in every music. For instants many

people today mistake folk dance and it music with clog dancing. But they are to completely

different things because each teaches an individual something completely different. In this class

students would be presented to different types of dances some fast moving such as Oddisssi

classical, tap dance and the dance of the mimicking animals (Many times danced for a certain

type of hunting reason or to show how important an animal was for them.), deranges dance,

square dance and la danza Azteca(Graffon).

       Something else that is nice about cultural dancing is that it is very healthy and benefits

students in so many ways. One way in which it benefits is that it helps build strong muscles and

bones. A person will gain strength from leaping, skipping, tumbling, running and basically just

moving around everywhere. Everyone in this class would have their bodies moving in various

ways. The dance will have you stretching, jumping and doing a lot of strength with your hands

giving you a lot of muscular strength(Herrick). Which you’ll continue to have as long as you

keep getting involved in this class, your muscles will get stronger and stronger. By doing all this

activities you won’t even notice that you’re learning about cultural dance. Not only will a person

have gained muscular strength but bone strength too. Due to the fact that this dance involves a

lot of joint related moves it helping them get stronger bones. Which is helpful because it teaches

of many things your ancestors did to stay strong and healthy leading to not getting hurt so easily.

Having all this benefits introduced to a person’s health there would be a gain in muscular and

bone stimulation. In this activity you would be learning about many organic and nutritional
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foods. Especially those foods your ancestors used to eat and have the opportunity to taste them

and if willing to change your diets as well.

       Another health benefit of cultural dancing is that is reduces stress levels. It helpsan

individual not be so stressed out(Craddock). It does this by giving them something fun to do and

keep their minds off of anything that might be worrying them. It teaches a person that there can

never be something so bad a little dance and knowledge can’t help them get over their worries

for a little while, and change their sense of thought. The good thing about having this mental

health benefit is that. You will be able to stay in an average weight range. The reason of this

being the case is that when a person is too stressed out they tend to eat too much and not do

much moving around. While in cultural dance you won’t have time to think about your

problems and be moving around most of the time, leading to being in good health. When a

persongets involved in this activity they’ll have much physical and mental health beneficial

outcomes. This will help anyone from gaining a lot of excessive weight, reduce their stress

levels while increasing life satisfaction and prevent cardiac risks. So not only does cultural

dancing give you something fun and interesting to do but it also will give you historical

knowledge. Due to all the good benefits gained from Zumba and Cultural Dancing a person

should really think about joining one of this programs. So at least you can try and experiment

with something different and unique give Zumba or Cultural dance a chance you won’t regret it.

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Cultural Dancing

  • 1. Sanchez1 Anna Sanchez Mrs. Rogers English IV 07 October 2012 Cultural Dancing Generations go through many changes some know their entire cultural background and ancestry while other generations know absolutely nothing about who they are or where they originate from. This being the case with today’s generations people are uninformed about their culture or other people’s culture. People could care less about others and their believes but this could be changed if young people would participate in dance activities. This would allow people to learn about their history, ancestry and cultural backgrounds. Being involved in a fun activity such as dancing could help change behavioral issues with people. If anyone where to participate in a dance class they would be entertained in something productive and not have time to get into trouble. Not only that but in this activity people would be having fun while they are being informed of other cultures. Cultural dancing is learning while having fun. This activity works to helppeople express themselves in new ways not involving language and verbal usage. Cultural dancing would help people by teaching them to develop thinking, personal and interpersonal skill. People would be learning to cooperate with one another and learn to trust others. This activityis something fun where everyone fits in. However the only challenging thing would be if they are having trouble with flexibility, agility, coordination, grace, sense of tempo or being able to feel the music move through them(Herrick).
  • 2. Sanchez2 One great fun activity that anyone could participate in could be the most popular thing right now,Zumba dance. Zumba is a very fun activity that involves dancingto bicultural music, so every time you work out, it will be to different music. Although Zumba is very popular right now this was not always the case. When Columbian migrant Beto Perez came to Miami looking for is big break in 1999. He was turned down by everyone he went to see about his program. No one was giving him the chance. One day he approached entrepreneur Alberto Perlman and he was given an opportunity to show Perlman what Zumba was. While Perez showed Mr. Perlman the program, a crowd gathered wanting to know where they could go to sign up for this activity, Perez was hired to start the Zumba program(Magazine). When a person joins Zumba they will be introduced to a new way of dance involving exercise. A person will have a great work out dancing to different Latin rhythms such as: merengue, salsa, flamingo, samba, tango, reggae, cumbia, belly dancing, tribal and many more. In this activity you will never repeat anything every time you go in for a session you have something new to do. Starting from the warm up routine all the way down to cooling down after this you’ll feel great. Zumba also provides many physical and mental health benefits and is estimated that a person will lose between 50-100 calories if you keep going regularly(Magazine). While doing Zumba you willexperience body toning and have a balance between co-ordination for your heart and mind. This activity provides everyone a great whole body workout working with everything from your head all the way down to your feet. Everyone would have a big benefit because it doesn’t matter if you like to work out or not or if you’re a beginner all the way to an advance learner zumba works to benefit everyone the same way. However,the creators know that not everyone feels comfortablebeing with athletics or advanced learners. So Zumbadecided to offer eight different classes from the mildest Zumba fitness which is like being
  • 3. Sanchez3 at a party and just moving around while working out and although this is easy you’ll still leave soar. And the toughest called Sentao which is choreographed to strengthen your core and set up a cardio work out. Also Zumba is not only a physical body improvement it is also mentally good for people. It produces endorphins (feel-good) hormones, which are released into the blood stream after a person finishes with a dancing. This is benefitual to people suffering from depression because it’ll help their stress levels lower(Bowling). This activity is estimated to have you wanting to visit Latin places and wanting to learn so much about where this bicultural music came from it also guarantees that you’ll have no clue you are participating in a different cultures activity. Since Zumba is mostly working out, cultural dancing not so much cultural dancing teaches a person to move along with the music are learning its meanings. A person will be very interested learning about key movements and of secret meanings their body language could have while they express themselves in different ways. For someone to be able to like cultural dance class they would have to be willing to acknowledge other cultures, not be self-centered and want to learn about them. Therefor cultural dance focuses on teaching people the meaning of certain dances, their originations and their importance. In cultural dance a main focus would be to teach people that every dance is not the same and that each symbolizes different things. This information would be giving depending on the personal believe concerning certain types of music. Cultural dace will teach students that back then every dance had a different meaning to their ancestors. This at many times ranked in announcing the birth of someone important, the celebration of a marriage, announcing a war or even trying to change the weather forecast.Everyone would learn that human creativity and dance symbolisms had a great role in the meanings of music. By learning this they’ll learn that
  • 4. Sanchez4 everything their ancestors did had a very special meaning to their music. This dance activity includes teaching people of different dance origins. This includes learning about dance place of birth, year/century it got started in and the kind of people that got the dances’ started. This type of dance class is very unique and important because it will teach young people of its importance in society and why it should be something all generations participate in. Cultural dance should not be allowed to die because off all the things it has to teach. Like how each ethical group belonged to a certain type of music which included its own dress code and way of behavior that reinforced their acceptance in other communities. Not only this but it would help today’s societies not forget about their family history and cultural background. This would include people to be informed of their economic and political consequences that today’s generations have gone through. Because today’s type of dance and music doesn’t have anything to do with political consequences and back then it did. This would inform everyone about many things and they would end up knowing about how many things in history got started just because of a simple dance. A very fun, interesting new dance that was lately introduced into the world of cultural dance is Tribal. It is a mixture of jumping around and basically going around incircles. It was introduces by Indian tribes but was unknown until about to years ago. When in Texas some Latin Americans came up with a new catchy dance with a new type of techno music. Along with introducing new music the dance came along with some strange new footwear, boots or better known as BotasPicudas/ Tribaleras. The dance is not so popular in the American community but they are huge in the Latin community. And as soon as more people hear about it more and more people will want to be moving around to this new techno tribe dance(Treks).
  • 5. Sanchez5 Dances come in different forms, depending on the type of music that comes along with them. Therefore everyone will be introduced to many dances and music styles. Forms of dance in cultural dance included ballet, modern jazz, and various ethical music groups. Also the class would teach the young people to be able to tell the difference in every music. For instants many people today mistake folk dance and it music with clog dancing. But they are to completely different things because each teaches an individual something completely different. In this class students would be presented to different types of dances some fast moving such as Oddisssi classical, tap dance and the dance of the mimicking animals (Many times danced for a certain type of hunting reason or to show how important an animal was for them.), deranges dance, square dance and la danza Azteca(Graffon). Something else that is nice about cultural dancing is that it is very healthy and benefits students in so many ways. One way in which it benefits is that it helps build strong muscles and bones. A person will gain strength from leaping, skipping, tumbling, running and basically just moving around everywhere. Everyone in this class would have their bodies moving in various ways. The dance will have you stretching, jumping and doing a lot of strength with your hands giving you a lot of muscular strength(Herrick). Which you’ll continue to have as long as you keep getting involved in this class, your muscles will get stronger and stronger. By doing all this activities you won’t even notice that you’re learning about cultural dance. Not only will a person have gained muscular strength but bone strength too. Due to the fact that this dance involves a lot of joint related moves it helping them get stronger bones. Which is helpful because it teaches of many things your ancestors did to stay strong and healthy leading to not getting hurt so easily. Having all this benefits introduced to a person’s health there would be a gain in muscular and bone stimulation. In this activity you would be learning about many organic and nutritional
  • 6. Sanchez6 foods. Especially those foods your ancestors used to eat and have the opportunity to taste them and if willing to change your diets as well. Another health benefit of cultural dancing is that is reduces stress levels. It helpsan individual not be so stressed out(Craddock). It does this by giving them something fun to do and keep their minds off of anything that might be worrying them. It teaches a person that there can never be something so bad a little dance and knowledge can’t help them get over their worries for a little while, and change their sense of thought. The good thing about having this mental health benefit is that. You will be able to stay in an average weight range. The reason of this being the case is that when a person is too stressed out they tend to eat too much and not do much moving around. While in cultural dance you won’t have time to think about your problems and be moving around most of the time, leading to being in good health. When a persongets involved in this activity they’ll have much physical and mental health beneficial outcomes. This will help anyone from gaining a lot of excessive weight, reduce their stress levels while increasing life satisfaction and prevent cardiac risks. So not only does cultural dancing give you something fun and interesting to do but it also will give you historical knowledge. Due to all the good benefits gained from Zumba and Cultural Dancing a person should really think about joining one of this programs. So at least you can try and experiment with something different and unique give Zumba or Cultural dance a chance you won’t regret it.