Dancing develops an intelligent and aware body and sensible
and savvy minds too. Dancing after all is so much more than mere imitation and
mirroring, infact it is a start to an endless journey of discoveries about the
self and the world and the realms in between. As I started sharing my skills in
Latin & Ballroom dance movements I realized that its more about aligning
and integrating your body and mind than anything else … understanding placement
helps to move with what you are capable of so what results is an awareness of
an expansion in ones capabilities in the process….
Learning dance should be unbridled joy in movement not about
the old school patterns of forced
turnouts , hyper flexing your muscles to injury perhaps as one grows older…its
definitely an organic approach to not muscle in
at the body but to coax it to mold to all its capable of and therein
lies the joy of learning to dance! This
can only happen when the training is done with awareness of what’s happening
inside the body at every given time. Empowering the body and mind with a deep
understanding of one’s anatomy and integrating the learning in a socio-psychological
perspective unique to every learner is the need of the movement.
Have always believed that partner dancing abilities extend
much beyond the performances and stage shows or even just social dancing. In
fact as the focus towards the form and learning strengthens, certain amazing traits
develop in most good dancers and stay on with them for the rest of their lives.
With further practice these traits evolve further with the years and
distinguish them from non-dancers.
You may find that may
be a dancer may not have the latest software skills but if you are looking at preciseness,
punctuality, confidence, poise and presentation, empathy, passion, and
structured creativity in your employee, look no further beyond a good dancer as they
walk all the talk and that’s a win win situation with grit , determination
and healthy mind and body to boot.
Dancing
with a partner can develop empathetic awareness,
compassion,synchronicity, balance, perception, respect along with time
management skills
and even personal hygiene awareness ,relationship
management to name a few! What more many
dancers are equipped with great leadership skills that are able to
strategize
beforehand as they have learned to envision a larger picture or at a
macro level.
And besides these
qualities I believe that one of most important
trait as a dancer is their ability to be in a positive frame of mind enough to look at every
dance , as fresh and new and being able to give the person in front of them
undivided attention, which itself is of immense value to another being !
Savvy Raj
