Dance as an integrative activity

Abstract

Youth depression among middle and high school students is considered a socio-educational problem that worries the family of the sufferer, school authorities and the health sector alike, since cases of youth suicide have been detected nationwide, when they do not know how to deal with the problem. In a better scenario, communication between young people and parents is the best method of prevention, since it induces the search for professional help, such is the case that gives origin and foundation to this document, and who for other reasons we will simply call “Maria”. The objective is to endorse the importance of dance as an integrating activity to the social and educational world alike.  Recovered from the qualitative methodology, the case method allowed to offer, in an indirect way, a focused attention; the dance activity in a period of 18 months, provoked a satisfactory result, a degree that is confirmed from different points of view, mainly in the field of physical and emotional health, as well as in the field of socialization and therefore in the educational field; In this regard, theorists of dance, psychology and education, recognize the importance of good mental health in the psychosocial development of every human being, so that 18 months after the arrival of “Maria” and the results obtained, we can categorically confirm that dance is not just another way of entertainment, but it becomes a way of socialization.