Why Dance?

The benefits of learning how to dance are numerous. It’s good exercise, it's healthy, it's fun, a good way to meet people, reduces stress, reduces shyness, build confidence, eliminate everyday boredom & expand your social life.

Dance offers something for every age, ability and fitness goal.

Want To Burn Some Calories?

Looking for a low-impact work out full of spicy, fat-burning footwork? Give Salsa, Cha Cha or one of the other Latin-flavored techniques a whirl. If weight loss is what you’re after, you’ll practically feel the calories going up in flames when you hustle, swing or waltz.

Dance your way to a slimmer body and better health. Sign up for a class, with or without a partner. Once you learn the steps, you’ve got a workout you can do for the rest of your life.

Step off the treadmill- In a study of heart patients, waltzing improved heart and lung function as much as cycling or using the treadmill and the dancing lifted spirits far more than conventional aerobic workouts. But you can’t just do a leisurely spin. For this study, participants alternated fast and slow waltzes for about 20 minutes, three times a week. Another bonus: You’re much more likely to stick with an appealing workout like waltzing than you are with one that bores you, like the treadmill.
- Good Housekeeping-May 2007

Ballroom dancing not only burns calories, it also helps keep minds sharp: A New England Journal of Medicine study suggested that hoofers age 65 and older were much less likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s than their less rhythmic peers. The reason? Experts think it’s because dance helps keep your brain on its toes, so to speak. “You engage your brain to perform the choreography and keep beat with the music, plus there’s a social, joyful element that’s often missing from other fitness pursuits”.
–Grace De Simone, creative director of Ethos Fitness and Day Spa
in Midland Park, NJ

Italian researchers have come up with a novel way for cardiac rehabilitation patients to exercise their damaged hearts without having to squeeze into spandex or gyrate in a gym: waltzing.

The dance proved to be just as effective as bicycle and treadmill training for improving exercise capacity in a study of 110 heart failure patients. Dancers also reported slightly more improvement in sleep, mood, and the ability to do hobbies, do housework and have sex than the others.
- Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press