It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression and blocked the expression of affect. An example is the tight holding of the chest area as a sign of repressed feelings of need and longing.

Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize the past to re-create the present, enhance their self-concept and body image, attract attention, assert themselves, confront the strong, and persuade others to change their ways.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.