The objective of this study was to comprehend the meaning of the biodance to elderly in a Biodance Group from Social Services of Commerce from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. The method of investigation was ethnography. The immediate reference of the biodance is life itself and is defined as a system of human integration and development, oriented to the study and expression of human potentialities induced by music, dance, group communication exercises, and integrated living experiences. The interviews were analyzed by the narrative analysis method. The process of analysis and interpretation revealed that the biodance betters the health conditions of the elderly, due to increasing their will to live; helping them to feel themselves inserted in the world and promoting autonomous living, as well as stimulating the search for existential projects. Thus, the dance promotes the existential renewal of the elderly and may be a strategy used by nurses in the process of human care.
Aged; Health promotion; Dance therapy