Senior Programs

DSS offers senior lessons and classes for various classifications of dance forms and dance styles, where socialization and physical exercise combine with the beauty of artistic performance.

Our senior programs are a glamorous way to enhance one's lifestyle, improve physique, enjoy the benefits that dance and music bring, and strengthen relationships between loved ones as well as make new connections and new friendships.

There are various options of interaction available for seniors:

You do not need a partner to take part in our DSS classes, whether group or individual lessons. Group classes are based on many individuals coming together to experience the joy that dance brings to daily life as well as to people from all walks of life. Individual lessons are one-on-one sessions with a DSS instructor, solely focused and personalized on you and your dancing, uniquely. 

In addition, Ballroom dancing is the perfect tool that not only keeps our muscles toned, as well as our strength, flexilibilty, coordination, and endurance at a great standard, but also provides us with ankle and core strength which aides in our overall balance. The DailyMail.com.UK posted an article that wrote about Dr. Emma Redding describing that engagement in Ballroom dancing can help prevent falls in the elderly as a result of ankle and core strengthening from dance. 

In addition to overall bodily strength, Ballroom Dancing is known to reduce the risks of dementia in its participants. When taking dancing classes, your brain is active in learning choreography, in coordinating your body parts together, and in coordinating your body to the music. The cognitive processes going on at the time of the class increase significantly. In addition, ballroom dancing helps relieve stress and anxiety due to the increased blood flow throughout the body.

Ballroom dancing also helps with socialization, especially for those who are widowed and/or lonely and have a difficult time filling that void in their day to day life. The partner element of Ballroom Dancing is of so much importance as it could be that many have not felt a touch from another human for some time. To feel touch from another partner brings joy, self-confidence, and happiness overall. It has been noticed that the elderly look forward to coming to class, dressing up in their favorite attire and putting on makeup and doing their hair. It is a celebration and a time to feel young and free. 

Ballroom dance class is a time and place which gives you the ability to truly enjoy yourself, your body, the music, and the company of people who have joined you to do the same.