Clave de salsa en Sindrome de Down

Abstract

Salsa Key in Down Syndrome is a theoretical and practical internship report by student Luis Carlos Acevedo Soacha, which took place at the Agailao dance company and is based on teaching Salsa to people with Down’s Syndrome. The objective of this project is to facilitate these individuals learning of the art of dance, which in turn teaches them important aspects of everyday life, such as self-improvement and motivation. It also seeks to strengthen their bodies, increase creativity, and improve extrasensory abilities through all the dance exercises. Once the benefits of dance were recognized, the next step in this project was to create a methodology that best suited the learning experience of this population, thus generating a classroom mechanism that works for dance learning. To end the project, a final staging was arranged. The results led to reflect on the learning progress for this group and to understand the scope of inclusion and enhance it through salsa, based on studies on dance and Down syndrome.