Abstract

Dance is a predominant type of physical activity among girls.Dance characteristics imply skills associated to health-related physicalfitness, as well as others such as learning and memory, mental representation, imagination and creativity, which are related to cognitive development. Although dance has been shown to influence physical health among youth girls, whether dance may influence academic performance and cognition in youth remains to beelucidated. The objective of this work was to examine the association between participation in dance and academic performance in youth girls.

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