What is it about?
This paper examines and explains the relationship between dancing and the ability to be more confident when speaking.
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Why is it important?
My findings show that if a person is having difficulty with speaking, especially in front of an audience, just one dance lesson can have a positive outcome and I have suggested to some of my speech pupils that they go and have a dance lesson to understand about performance and presentation. They have come back to me a much more confident person, willing to put into practice what I am teaching them.
Perspectives
I had great fun exploring the benefits of dance using past and present students and dance teachers who I had taught because they felt they could give more to their dance students if they could present their ideas in a more clear and confident way. I have taught hundreds of people over a period of about 20 years how to speak more clearly and I began to realise that the people who improved more quickly were students who at some time in their life had been dancers. They seemed to understand the process much more instinctively.
Ms Serena Greenslade
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This page is a summary of: The effectiveness of learning to dance on people’s ability to speak clearly and confidently with expression, Voice and Speech Review, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2015.1032534.
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