This research reports on the first narrative review of Biodanza’s effects
on health and wellbeing. The review explores manuscripts in four languages (i.e.,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English) and includes more than 200 documents.
The protocol was evaluated according to the most recent SANRA guidelines and
Kappa statistics. The research shows that the majority of the studies had descriptive
approaches (29.2%), followed by robust control trials (26.8%), while the remaining
studies included both narrative and systematic reviews (19.5%) as well as pilot
(14.6%), ethnographic (7.3%), and assessment (2.4%) studies. The research team
concluded that Biodanza is an innovative intervention to improve clinical and sociopedagogic
outcomes in different cohorts (including kindergartens and chronic seniledisease
patients) and should be fostered for additional trials along or in comparison
with alternative interventions (such as Bodytasking)