Dance, Health and Wellness

Catalog description

A course of dynamically interacting ideas. Dance promotes health and wellness. Wellness practices create a healthy dancer. A healthy dancer is one who has a wellness mindset and knows how to prevent injuries. Studying the interaction of these three ideas is intended to produce a movement literacy. This movement literacy, however, lives implicitly in a world where bodily communication of tensional relationships, tugs and pulls is silent. Thus, a further intention is to transform the implicit understanding to explicit communication through applying academic communicative skills of writing and speaking. Circumnavigates the polycenters of healthy movement, injury prevention and wellness identifying strategies, models and practices that best optimize movement.