Dança e expressão corporal : importância e benefícios na visão de crianças, adolescentes e seus pais/responsáveis.

Abstract

The objective of this study was analyze what the view of children and teenagers about the participation in dance and body expression activities, as the opinion of your parents and responsible about this participation. This transversal study, descriptive exploratory, evaluated 58 individuals, on the age range of 6 to 18 years old, being 19 male and 39 female, all of them practicing dance classes weekly. Also were evaluated the parents and responsible by the children and teenagers that, similarly, answered the questionnaire, containing 9 questions, that traverse about the importance of the dance to the students and the effect of classes on motors, social, emotional and cognitive aspects. The results show that all the individuals observed improvements in your lives with the practice of dance and body expression classes, in all aspects questioned, as your responsible that, even not participating of dance classes, they know about the importance of it to the physical, mental and emotional development of individuals. Conclude that dance and body expression classes are fundamental to the full development of children and teenagers, both in the view of students as your parents and responsible.