Harmony with Diversity

Dance doesn't care 

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Who we are

You may ask yourselves: "Who is behind harmony with diversity?" Well, we are ordinary students at the International School of Management in Dortmund, Germany. We study Psychology & Management and Tourism & Management. We are very different personality's but the one thing that connects us on a deeper level is our love for dance. We want to bring awareness to the positive effects that dance can have on everyone's daily lives. This is a very emotional topic for us. With this blog we hope to bring your emotions to the surface and make your inner dancer step out.

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About us

Hey, my name is Nadine Wienzek and I‘m 20 years old. I study psychology and management at the  ISM in Dortmund. In my free time I love to dance. I dance for 17 years and it is still a big part of my life. I really enjoy show dance. I love to tell a story by dancing - the costumes and make up, the facial expressions and gestures, the acting and movements - just impressing. The moment you stand on the stage in front of a bunch of people is the moment when you realize what you’ve been working on for the last few months and years.

Hello, my name is Annika Hohmann and I am 20 years old. At the moment I am studying Tourism and Event Management at the International School of Management in Dortmund. I am spending most of my free time in the dance school near my hometown. 2012 I started visiting this dancing school as a student and began with contemporary dance. As the time passed, I started more classes like Broadway Jazz, Ballet and High Heels Dance. 2020 my dancing teacher asked me if i wanted to start giving classes myself. I was very happy about that and right now I am teaching four different classes of kids dancing. Personally, dance didn’t only teach me how to move my body and do different choreography's, it also gave me a lot of confidence and i got to know great people, which i now call my best friends. For me dancing is having fun and connecting with different people who share this passion, and that makes it such a great and special hobby.

Hey, my name is Sofia Gulielmos. I am half Greek half German, but what really makes me what I am is dance. I started dancing before I was even able to walk. My passion started at 4 years old when I took my first ballet lesson. From that moment I knew, that is where I am meant to be. Over the years I have changed many different dance styles, from Ballet to Hip Hop, Contemporary, Jazz, Latin, Dance Hall, and Reggaeton. In the hardest times of my life, dance was always there for me. With being bilingual and growing up in two countries, it is difficult to know where you are really from, but with dance, no matter where I am, I am always home! Dance definitely showed me, that it doesn't care, it allows me to be myself and express myself in a way that only I can. The beat of the music, is what keeps my heartbeat going, and the movement in my dancing, is what keeps me moving on in life!

Hey, my name is Noah Kolodziej. I don’t really have any experience in professional dancing, but I always had a passion for dancing at home. And seeing others enjoying themselves and losing their grip to reality just by dancing, showed me how much of an impact it can have on one’s life. This started my interest in looking deeper into the matter and my journey of dance.

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What dance means

Dance doesn't just mean moving to a beat,

dancing is passion, expressing how you feel, being in the moment with no other distractions from the outside world. Sure there are people who say for themselves that they can't dance, but that doesn't mean that they can't express themselves in their movements. There are rehearsed choreographies,  there are competitions, there are performances etc. but dance is so much more than that. Try putting on your favorite song on full volume and just start moving, you can do it where ever you want, you'll definitely see that sometimes, you don't have to talk to express yourself, because with dance, you can create your own very unique way of communication. One can say that it connects the mind with the heart. All of us know how difficult that can be sometimes. The best thing about it is, that it's free, of course you can go to dance schools and pay teachers to teach you whole choreographies, but in the end, it is waiting for you with no expectations what so ever.

Here is a video of a dancer, she wants to tell you her own story, of how dance saved her. Take a look:

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Dance keeps you healthy

Besides from the positive psychological aspects dance can have on you, there are also many positive physiological aspects of dancing. First of all, it helps you to find your balance, now balance is very important for you because it helps you finding your core spot. With that your spine won't have any major problems in the future and you will be able to keep your body standing up straight with no back problems. Second of all, your coordination will get better and better with practice. By that I don't mean that you'll be the best basketball player just by dancing, coordination means to help your eyes support the movement of your body. The eyes are directly connected to your brain, and the brain controls every single reaction of your body. With dance, you will be able to go through life easier, without really thinking about the next step that you are going to take. It will happen automatically. You will learn to see in a different way and that will help your brain controlling your movements more effectively. Last but not least of course it keeps you in shape. Dance is the best full body workout, without you even noticing it. It's not boring weightlifting and pressuring yourself to push through that pain, while you work out you are going to be listening to music, you are going to have fun and most of all, you are going to forget all the other pain life causes you. There are many offices all around the world that offer dance breaks during work periods, so that the employees get a little bit movement going on, while the whole other work period they are just staring into a computer screen. That prevents them from having any long lasting physical pain. In the end it's worth a try.

Just try it, you won't regret it!