Dancing Makes You Smarter? Put It To The Test

For centuries, dance guides and other writings have praised the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise. More recently we've seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being.

Most recently we've heard of another benefit: Recurrent dancing seemingly makes us smarter.

A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one's mind by dancing can ward off Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, much as physical exercise can keep the body fit. Dancing also increases cognitive acuity at all ages, when you perform at the Dome Theatre Brighton.

What exactly do they mean by "smarter"?

As neuroscience educator Robert Sylwester records,”mobility is central to everything that is cognitive, whether it is physical motion or the mental movement of information. Plants have to stand whatever comes along, including predators eating them. Animals, on the other hand, can travel to seek food, shelter, mates, and to move away from unfavourable conditions. Since we can move, we need a cognitive system that can comprehend sensory input and intelligently make choices.”

Semantics will vary for each of us, but according to many, if the stimulus-response relationship of a situation is involuntary, we don't think of the response as needing our intelligence. But when the brain assesses several viable responses and chooses one, the cognitive process is considered to be intelligent.

As Jean Piaget put it, intellect is what we use when we don't already know what to do.

Why dancing At The Dome Theatre Brighton?

We immediately ask two questions:




· Why is dancing better than other activities for improving mental capabilities?




· Does this mean all kinds of dancing, or is one kind of dancing better than another?



It doesn't answer these questions as a stand-alone study. Fortunately, it isn't a stand-alone study. It's

one of many studies, over decades, which have shown that we upsurge our mental capacity by exercising our cognitive processes. Intelligence: Use it or lose it. And it's the other studies which fill in the gaps in this one. Looking at all of these studies together lets us understand the bigger picture.

The heart of intelligence is making decisions. The best advice, when it comes to improving your mental insight, is to involve yourself in activities which require split-second rapid-fire decision making, as different to rote memory or just working on your physical style.

One way to do that is to learn something new. Not just dancing, but anything new. Don't worry about the probability that you'll never use it in the future. Take a class to challenge your mind. It will stimulate the connectivity of your brain by generating the need for new pathways. Difficult classes are better for you, as they will create a greater need for new neural pathways.

Then take a dance class, which can be even more effective. Dancing integrates several brain functions at once; kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional and further increasing your neural connectivity.

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The Brighton Dome presented Katy Perry before Fame - Were You There?

Beyoncé is undoubtedly a goddess. Lady Gaga is an artist and a half. But after logging her eighth number-one single, Katy Perry might be the biggest pop star of her generation. She’s also the only one who has performed at The Brighton Dome.

And a few polls revealed that Katy Perry is at the top of the favourites…

She’s not the singer with the most excitement. She doesn't have fan armies that set up countdown
clocks to the announcement of her next song, she isn't the first choice to cover an issue of Vogue, and her music and tricks don't dominate water-cooler conversation. She's popular, but not with-it. She makes music that everyone sings along to, but not many people. She dresses in bright costumes and embraces an over-the-top persona, but still reads as dim and normal.

It’s appropriate that Perry’s latest smash is titled “Roar.” Though she’s been around for over six years, the song is almost a second coming out. She’s been quiet and very successful this past decade, but now she’s roaring.

She’s music’s biggest pop star.

Start of Katy Perry’s Career at The Brighton Dome

In 2007, Katy Perry debuted her first single, “I Kissed a Girl,” a PG-13 bubblegum pop track. The song was branded a “lipgloss lesbian” anthem by critics. Others dismissed it as faux provocation masking as pop. Just a few years later, still at the beginning of her career, Perry performed at the Brighton Dome in Brighton, East Sussex. With the review from the Guardian that stated “Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Thursday
The US kiddie pop favourite brings the likes of I Kissed A Girl and UR So Gay. Mild controversy follows half-heartedly in her wake. Great tunes, though.”

These days Perry is filling up arenas such as the o2 Arena, London and rumoured to perform within the LA super bowl halftime show.

“I Kissed a Girl” spent seven weeks at number one. Quickly silencing the one-hit wonder theorists, her follow-up, “Hot n Cold,” had a long residency in the Top 10, peaking at number three. In 2010, she released her sophomore album, Teenage Dream. Five consecutive singles from the album went to number one “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.,” and “Last Friday Night.” A sixth, “The One That Got Away,” settled for number three, while two bonus singles off of a luxurious edition of the album “Part of Me” and “Wide Awake” charted at one and two, respectively.

Up To Date Perry Impact

Beyoncé, the deserving recipient of the title, the Greatest Performer of Her Time, only has five number one singles, and hasn’t had one since 2008’s “Single Ladies.” In fact, not one song off her last album, 4, charted higher than 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the same amount of time that Katy Perry has racked up eight number ones, Lady Gaga has only achieved three.

Both Gaga and Perry released their new singles, “Applause” and “Roar” on the same day. “Applause” peaked at number four and has already fallen two spots to number six. “Roar” logged an increase in digital sales over the past week after its release.




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The Brighton Dome is Royal History

The Brighton Dome is the south coast's leading multi-arts venue at the cultural heart of England's ‘city on the edge’. Brighton Dome plays host to an collection of event and conference spaces within its Grade I and II listed historic building, the former Royal Riding House of Prince Regent in 1805.

This marvellous venue is over 200 years old, which in fact started as The Prince Regents stables and riding house. This venue offers a huge space which is  perfect to highlight the arts.

A Bit Of History of The Brighton Dome

The stables were converted to a concert hall around 1860. Queen Victoria, the Prince’s niece, took a dislike to Brighton and the Royal Pavilion Estate. Instead, the town purchased the stable building in 1850 and it was used as a cavalry barracks from 1856 to 1864. Its interior was modernised by architect Philip Lockwood at a cost of £10,000 before reopening on 24 June 1867 as a concert and assembly hall, fit to hold 2,500 people. A 16-foot diameter gas powered chandelier was tailored as the grand centrepiece. Since that time, the Corn Exchange and Concert Hall have gone through many changed guises with the latest renovation of the Concert Hall taking place in 2001–02 and costing £22 million. This rebirth was assisted in with the help of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Nigel Kennedy and Fatboy Slim.

Every year, they present and produce over 600 events spanning music, theatre, dance, comedy, literature, spoken word, visual arts, film, digital and more. In addition to the year-round programme, each May they produce England's leading and most-progressive mixed-arts celebration, the internationally-acclaimed Brighton Festival. Artists have varied on the stage, such as; David Bowie, Katy Perry, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and Michael Bublé etc.

A centre for artists across the region, Brighton Dome hosts and supports both developing and established artists and companies, enabling them to develop, take risks and deliver work of the highest quality.

Brighton Dome is faithful to the idea of bringing all sorts of art to all sorts of people. By offering imaginative new ways to discover and participate - from Saturday morning singing to theatrical make-up workshops - they aim to inspire creativity in people of all ages with experiences to remember.

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Online stats and facts….

·        Brighton Dome has an average of 4.1 stars from Google reviews.

And here are a few reviews from people on their Facebook page…..

·        “Amazing venue. It's like you are having a gig in your front room. So cosy. The atmosphere during gigs is always amazing and the sound is great.” – Dominika Hicks from Bexhill, East Sussex

·        “A nice central location for a conference with hotels and bars nearby.” – Steve O’Neil from Brighton, East Sussex

·        “Great venue to see live bands.... small enough to get close to the stage if you like, but plenty of room to sit or stand further back if that's what you prefer.” – Annie-Marie Coles from Patridge Green, West Sussex

So if you feel like taking some precious time out of your day to visit an extraordinary then The Brighton Dome is the perfect place to visit.

Visit their website www.brightondome.org and book a visit now

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