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September at danceScape: Inspiration, Community, and the Joy of Dance in Burlington
Life today can feel overwhelming. Many in our community are caring for aging parents or grandparents. Others are navigating major life changes — from the loss of a spouse, to divorce, to health challenges. Local small business owners are facing their own pressures, while technology and AI are disrupting jobs and shifting how we live…
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Escaping AI And Screen Scrolling Overload: The danceScape Way
How the danceScape Community Helps You Stay Grounded in an AI-Heavy World: The more time we spend in AI chats, text messages, emails, and feeds, the more we risk slipping into overthinking, isolation, and “reality drift.” Social dancing flips that script. At danceScape, movement + music + human connection = a powerful antidote: it grounds…
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Your Brain on ChatGPT — And Why Dance Might Be the Antidote
🔬 When AI Thinks for You, Your Brain Works Less In June 2025, the MIT Media Lab released a preprint study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT.” Researchers explored how AI-assisted writing impacts our brain activity compared to traditional thinking and problem-solving. Key Findings: AI reduces neural engagement. Participants who relied on ChatGPT showed weaker activation…
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Top 10 Fitness & Health Benefits of Dancing
🕺 The Top 10 Fitness & Health Benefits of Dancing 1. Forever Young: Cardiovascular & Respiratory Fitness Dancing mimics the exertion levels of cyclists, swimmers, and 800‑m runners—boosting heart and lung capacity, circulation, and aerobic endurance. Regular dance can slow the aging process by strengthening your cardiovascular system. prudential.co.th+4dancescape.com+4YouTube+4 2. Strong Bones & Lubricated Joints…
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Learn Local. Dance Canadian.
💃 Why danceScape’s International Ballroom & Latin Roots Make All the Difference At danceScape, we believe that learning to dance should be joyful, empowering, and elegant—and for over 25 years, we’ve built our reputation on exactly that. Founded by Robert Tang & Beverley Cayton-Tang, former 3-time Canadian and 2-time North American Ballroom Champions, danceScape was…
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When Dance Turns Into a Sales Pitch: What You Should Know Before Signing Up for Lessons
Learning to dance is supposed to be a joyful journey—full of connection, confidence, and celebration. But for many first-time students, their experience starts not with music and movement, but with a contract and a high-pressure sales pitch. At danceScape, we’ve heard countless stories from students who came to us after feeling uncomfortable, pressured, or even…
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The Secret Society of Santas is not just a Myth.
Yes, Virginia, we can confirm that there are actually teams of “Secret Santas” in neighbourhoods like ours who are bringing gifts of kindness to unsuspecting people during this Holiday Season. We all want Disneyesque “Story-Book” endings. But “real” Life stories never quite go as imagined. They meander and wander with unanticipated outcomes. A few weeks…
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Do You Ever Regret those “Could Have” Been Life Moments? How I missed our Chance to Dance…
As Beverley and I get out of the car, we notice a group of young musicians playing stringed instruments in the distance. I love the sound of violins and cellos. Perhaps a memory of being 5 or 6 years old in Malaysia and watching grandfather with his cherished violin. I never actually remembered seeing him…
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Top 10 #Fitness & #Health Benefits to #Dance
Here are danceScape’s Top ten fitness and health benefits to dance and why you should start today: Forever Young. Dancing is tremendously beneficial in keeping us young. It retards the aging process immensley. It benefits our heart, cardiovascular system and increases our lung capacity. Fact: The muscle exertion and breathing rates of dancers performing in one…
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Health Benefits of Dancing
The Art of Dance: Health Benefits, One Step at a Time By Suzanne Soto-Davies There is a reason why Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is also known as “winter depression” or “winter blues”. Winter months are typically less sunny times, but people also spend less time outdoors, directly exposed to sunlight which provides natural Vitamin D,…