Healing minds, moving bodies: measuring the mental health effects of online dance during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorRugh, Rachelen
dc.contributor.authorHumphries, Ashleeen
dc.contributor.authorTasnim, Nooren
dc.contributor.authorBasso, Julia C.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T15:22:41Zen
dc.date.available2022-12-08T15:22:41Zen
dc.date.issued2022-06en
dc.description.abstractUse of breath, close physical proximity, and tactile cues are some of the unique facets of dance training. In March of 2020, as COVID-19 lockdowns occurred, these aspects were removed from the lexicon of dance educators as virtual learning took the place of in-person training. This data-driven project explores the benefits and challenges of virtual dance, examining whether online dance can acutely improve mental health and enhance social connectivity. We explore our findings from an education perspective, focusing on learning style, class experience, and dance history. Our findings suggest that online dance can improve mood and increase community connectedness in healthy adults. Importantly, we found that an individual's trait learning style can influence the effectiveness of online learning, with tactile learners benefitting the most in terms of mood state and visual learners benefitting the most in terms of social connectivity. Additionally, we found that greater levels of experienced enjoyment provided the greatest benefits to mood state, whereas greater levels of perceived difficulty may have detrimental effects. We suggest best practices for online dance learning, provide future areas of research, and highlight the importance of using online learning to increase dance accessibility to diverse populations.en
dc.description.notesThis work was suppored by the iTHRIV Scholars Program, which is funded in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers UL1TR003015 and KL2TR003016.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [UL1TR003015, KL2TR003016]en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14647893.2022.2078297en
dc.identifier.eissn1470-1111en
dc.identifier.issn1464-7893en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/112816en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectDanceen
dc.subjectimprovisationen
dc.subjectjazzen
dc.subjectballeten
dc.subjectmodernen
dc.subjectmental wellnessen
dc.subjectcommunity connectednessen
dc.subjectcommunity outreachen
dc.titleHealing minds, moving bodies: measuring the mental health effects of online dance during the COVID-19 pandemicen
dc.title.serialResearch in Dance Educationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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