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The fitness jigsaw:
Dance based paradigms
Koutedakis and Sharp refer
to the fitness “Jigsaw”
in dance. The dance Jigsaw
includes all components of
fitness: cardio-respiratory
endurance, muscular
endurance, muscular
strength, body composition,
and flexibility. The paper
explores the components and
it identifies how dance can
improve them. For instance,
dance forms which challenge
the aerobic intensity of fitness
sessions, receive attention.
The paper identifies effective
dance forms and it explores
how creative use of rhythm
and dynamics can increase
their efficiency. The paper also
addresses misconceptions,
which equate muscular fitness
with a loss of flexibility and a
bulky aesthetic and it identifies
how supplementary fitness
sessions and plyometrics
improve dancers’ muscular
fitness. It advocates one
particular dance form, “Contact
Improvisation”, as particularly
Sharon A Phelan
Physical Education and Dance at the
Institute of Technology, Ireland
efficient from muscular-based
perspectives. Finally, the
paper focuses on dance and
flexibility. It advocates the
use of dynamic stretching,
versus static stretching,
during dance sessions, as
it is a better calorie burner
and it also improves dancers’
kinesthetic awareness,
balance, coordination, posture
and cardiovascular fitness.
In conclusion, this paper
highlights the potential of
dance as a fitness tool using
Koutedakis and Sharp’s
fitness Jigsaw as its source of
reference. It also identifies
extents to which these
fitness components can
be challenged, through an
informed selection of specific
dance forms and provision
of supplementary training.
Throughout the paper, visual
examples of the dance forms
will be presented, online and
live, to affirm the concepts
being explored.
Biography
Sharon Phelan Lectures in
Physical Education and Dance
at the Institute of Technology,
JOURNAL OF OBESITY &WEIGHT LOSS THERAPY 2019, VOLUME: 4 | DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C2-092 KEYNOTE FORUM | DAY 2
in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. She
has also danced with Siamsa
Tire, the National Folk Theatre
of Ireland, for over twenty-five
years and she taught Physical
Education in second level for
a decade. Sharon is a National
Facilitator in Dance with the
Department of Education.
She was responsible for the
first dance syllabus at second
level in Ireland and the first
syllabi at degree level in
Ireland. She has published
academic works internationally
on the use of dance from
physical, educational and