Luanda — The lecturer Ana Macara, with the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa university (Portugal), said Friday in Luanda that learning a dance has a positive influence in the general development of the individual, in aspects like the intellect, body and cultural expression.

Ana Macara said so when delivering a lecture on the essence of dance, held in the National History Museum, a seminar that was promoted by the Artistic Training National Institute (INFA).

"There are concrete and objective studies that demonstrate this. For instance, a child that practices a dance gets better results, in general, in school curriculum, besides developing other capacities of integration, motion and creativity", she explained.

Ana Macara stressed that when dance is taught in an appropriate methodological way, it appeals to a converging and diverging conscience, that is, to the capacity of creating and seeing new possibilities.

The university lecturer also said that Dance should be a primary school subject, because a child starts to get to know the world through the body.

Therefore, she said, countries should be concerned about training dance teachers, because this art has a lot to do with dynamics, not only of artistic quality, but also of elevating world conscience.

On her turn, the Cuban lecturer at the service of IFA, Minerva Jaka, stressed that dance moulds behaviours, emotions, interests and integration of ethnic groups.