I Believe in the Power of Dance | Cara Scrementi | TEDxUCIrvine

Cara Scrementi talks about the power that dance education can have on an individual. Dance is essential to educating the whole.

Cara Scrementi is an educator, choreographer, screendance maker, and dancer and is currently pursuing her MFA in Dance at the University of California, Irvine. She was the Co-Director of the After School Matters Dance Ensemble, an advanced apprenticeship program for Chicago high school students and a dance instructor at The Dance Gallery in northwest Indiana.

[ZeePark]

Dancing is literally therapeutic to me. It's the only thing that makes me genuinely smile with inner satisfaction especially when I'm freestyling deep into the music. Nobody can understand it, not from where I live. It is for this reason that I'm able to actually approach each song differently 'cause I try to understand the song or interpret the vibe especially in edm or classical type of music where there is no lyrics.

Edit: I incorporate many styles like popping, hiphop, contemporary, and dancehall, but waacking is my main style of dance. There is something freeing with throwing your arms and spinning hands in a calculated yet open direction. I feel like I become one with the instruments and song when I'm moving along.

[hiphopdanceeliana]

I love dancing. May I just say it is so vulnerable and brave of these two dancers to stand up there with no music and dance in front of an audience.

[neethang]

It's incredible how dance helps us grow as a human on a holistic level.

[divineestarr]

Dance is also a way of healing 🌈❤️🧘‍♀️

[gea]

Very good points mentioned... Dance is really such a powerful tool to express oneself for everyone.

[ubseggie]

What about talking emotional health they gain being connected to their body. Also ownership and control of their own body is valuable 🙏

[janissisa]

I'm watching this because my prof said so. I hate online classes.

[paula.arendasova]

♥There is a new TED talk about Twerk: The Healing power of Twerk. It has research involved, worth it to check it out!

[thulasi]

Poor sound quality of the video and I can't understand a single thing. ...it's very sad