Dança e envelhecimento: uma parceria em movimento!

• Autor(a) principal: Paiva, Ana Clara de Souza [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Hernandez, Salma Stéphany Soleman [UNESP], Sebastião, Emerson [UNESP], Quadros Júnior, Antonio Carlos de [UNESP], Monteiro, Maira Cury [UNESP], Costa, José Luiz Riani [UNESP], Gobbi, Lilian Teresa Bucken [UNESP], Gobbi, Sebastião [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.12820/RBAFS.V.15N1P70-72; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/133630
• topic: Dance; Health promotion; Aging; Physical activity; Dança; Promoção de saúde; Envelhecimento; Atividade física

The dance content in Physical Activity Program for third age - PROFIT carried out at UNESP – São Paulo State University has begun in 1997 and is until nowadays a regular physical activity practice to elderly. Since beginnings the dance practitioners work with functional capacities through choreographies, claiming the spatial-time orientation, besides the benefi ts already proved by music uses. Since then, life with dance became a strong way to promote health, trough learning a variety of movements and diff erent rhythms. Today, about 30 elderly advantages besides motor part, dance classes favor body consciousness, mental practice and rhythm. The classes are divided in warm up and stretching phase, principal phase (witch components of functional capacity are stimulated) and fi nalize with cool down phase. The dance program created to physical educations undergraduate students’ opportunities to pedagogical practice and permitted researches development about aging and its relation to physical activity through dance. There are a lot of published results, collaborating with the scientifi c literature about the benefi ts of dance regular practices.