Relationship of latin dances and the development of coordination capacities. Systematic review

Revisión sistemática

Abstract

The present study is a systematic review article on the relationship between Latin dances and the development of coordination skills, which compiles the most relevant information on the subject. The objective of this article is to relate Latin dances as a methodological strategy for the development of the coordinative capacities. As for, the methodology used in the article , was the use of several secondary sources; in which were analyzed works published in different databases such as: :Academia , Dialnet, Elsevier, Google Académico, Redalyc, ResearchGate ,Scielo; in the same way, documents of the last 10 years were taken into account except that they have relevant information; also, the search was performed from the logical operators and keywords such as Latin rhythms, types of dances, coordination capacities, coordination.For the filtering of the information, the inclusion criteria and use of the flow chart of the PRISMA statement protocol were used. Among the results obtained, 13 articles were included to this study, showing all of them that the use of Latin dances brings several benefits at psychological, cognitive, social and physical levels. Therefore, it was concluded that there is a relationship between Latin dances and the development of coordination skills, since this allows the movements to be controlled, precise and simultaneous, to reproduce them in different situations, thus generating in the population an improvement in their quality of life.