What is the importance of folk dance? Primarily, it keeps a culture of people alive, by sharing and teaching younger generations the dances. Dance keeps the history of people alive as well. Dances are ways a community celebrates a special event or important date in time.
Importance:
People dance for all kinds of reasons - to mourn, to celebrate, to heal, to give thanks, to demonstrate physical prowess, to assert individuality, to provoke and to entertain. Almost anyone can dance, regardless of age or ability. To specify, there is a type of dance which reasonably preserves the cultural heritage and treasured legends. Folk dance plays an imperative role to nurture and maintain cultures and identities. To keep these alive, folk dance is performed to refresh and value the remarks as well as treasure the built civilization of their ancestors/forefathers. It displays how colorful their culture is-- wearing festive and localized costumes, and combining it with their native song. We can say their creativity reflects the way they live and their identity. Folk dance serves as an entry for identification which makes it easier for us to recognize people in different places. These different places showcase the beauty of their folk dances to drive awareness and recognition for millennials or for this generation since they are now tremendously exposed to the new genres of music and dance. Folk dances are only some of the important sources of depicting early life and cultures of native people.
-Participating in dance may allow the elderly to improve their physical function, health and well-being. Another beneficial advantage is that they can significantly improve their aerobic capacity, lower body muscle endurance, strength and flexibility, balance, agility and gait through the dancing.
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