All Abilities Dance Class with Dance Health Alliance

This DanceWise class is interactive, and entertaining. Dance Health Alliance’s Dance Instructors, have an eclectic playlist that will have you singing along as you groove and sway. Soak in the views over Collaroy Beach, experience the positive uplift of dance, and be inspired to keep moving no matter what your ability is.

No dance experience is necessary and no special clothing required.

Health Benefits of Dance

“If we could bottle the effects that dance has on our bodies, minds, and brains, it would be the new wonder drug!”

Recent research now positions dance ahead of other physical activities in terms of its impact. Dance is an inclusive, social activity that has significant benefits on a physical, mental, and emotional level. It engages individuals of all ages in life-giving activity, scientifically improving general levels of health, immune function, brain health, neuroplasticity, confidence, and social integration.

About Gwen Korebrits

Gwen Korebrits is the Co-Founder and Senior Certified Dance Teacher (AISTD) of Dance Health Alliance. Having started dancing at the age of 3, she attended the prestigious dance and stage school Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts (UK).

Gwen has seen first hand the rejuvenating power of dance, when her father suffered a stroke at the age of 45. She had no preconceived ideas of rehabilitation but after encouraging him to sing, dance and recite poetry, slowly step by step, verse by verse his brain began to repair itself, and within 12 months he was back to normal except for a small limp. That was the start for Gwen’s journey to discover the marriage between dance and health.

With Gwen has developed dance/movement programs specifically designed to help older adults with coordination, balance, and movement and been integral to the development of the DanceWell and DanceWise programs, for people living with Multiple Sclerosis and dementia respectively.

About Dance Health Alliance

Dance Health Alliance is a Not For Profit organisation, facilitating innovative dance programmes designed to improve quality of life, help restore body/mind balance and combat ill health. Focusing on people living with movement restricting conditions, cognitive diseases, mental health and the elderly to regain freedom through movement.

For more information on their range of programmes and how to get invovled, visit their website www.dancehealthalliance.org.au