Bailes da terceira idade: a presença de jovens e adultos no baile do “zé do aladim” na cidade de trindade-go

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify the main reasons that make young people and adults to attend to dance of third age Zé do Aladim in the city of Trindade-GO. This is a fieldwork performed by means of a questionnaire that has 11 questions. The sample was composed by 42 (forty two) young people and adults both genders, in an age group of 16 to 32 years old, practicing ballroom dancing, selected randomly during the Dance. The results reveal that the reasons that make young people and adults to attend the dance of third age Zé do Aladim is mainly to have fun and to find someone to have a relation and they utilize the dance like element of approximation.