Three Big Ideas

-What does dance teach you?
-Emotional Benefits/Doing things you enjoy often makes you happier
-How can dancing benefit your future self

4/17/2017

To establish a mentorship, I decided to email one of the co-directors of the University of Iowa’s Department of Dance. In the email I talked about my project and what I was trying to do. I also asked if I could interview her through email to get her perspectives on if/how dancing affects the brain. For my field experience I go to dance every Wednesday and sometimes I will go other days of the week. For instance, I have a dance competition almost every weekend which provides me with more experience in the dance world. While at dance I asked other girls about how dance makes them feel or how they would describe dance with one word and I was surprised that everyone gave me really positive feedback. I have decided that instead of trying to learn a new dance trick every week, I am just going to focus on learning about the effects on the brain. The articles I read about this all said that dancing makes you happier over all but going to dance class and actually talking to friends we really get to experience this. One thing the articles didn’t talk about is how dance can be frustrating sometimes, but when you get past that, it makes you feel really good about yourself! Whats next for my project would be waiting for the co-director of the U of I Department of Dance to email me back and hopefully getting to ask her a few questions about my topic!

“Go where the people dance.”