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Bent as a Ballet Dancer

2004
There is now a significant body of work concerned with sexualities and schooling. This work has detailed the discrimination faced by gay, lesbian, and bisexual students and examined the functioning of homophobia and assumptions about the normalness of heterosexuality—or heteronormativity—in school contexts.
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Multi-joint coordination in ballet dancers

Neuroscience Letters, 2004
In upright posture, we analyzed the multi-joint coordination during drawing ellipses with the foot in a horizontal plane in classical ballet dancers (Elite) and gymnasts who had no dance training (Novice). In both groups, the stability of the head and the trunk was similar. Furthermore, a comparatively simple synergy inter-relating the movements in the
Francine, Thullier, Hicham, Moufti
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The Ballet Dancer Defects

2003
Abstract The ballet dancer’s defection was the most spectacular of all: ovations, flowers, embraces-then a flying ‘leap to freedom’. Raised, protected, and tutored by ballet masters and mistresses second to none, the absconding Soviet dancer was taken to have betrayed his teachers, his colleagues, his native land (rodina).
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Problems of the ballet dancer.

The Australian journal of physiotherapy, 2014
The needs of ballet dancers have been overlooked by many medical and para-medical workers in the past due to a failure to understand the basic techniques of the dancers. It is with a view to rectifying this omission that we are describing our recent experience in the field of ballet injuries.
A P, Millar, E, McDonald
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Musculoskeletal injuries in young ballet dancers

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2011
AbstractPurposeThe aim of this study was to examine the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries, site and type of injury, and the most common injury diagnoses in young ballet dancers at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, a public school in Stockholm.MethodsThis retrospective study of 476 students (297 girls and 179 boys) aged 10–21 years was based on ...
Charlotte, Leanderson   +5 more
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Isokinetic Characteristics of Ballet Dancers and the Response to a Season of Ballet Training

Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 1984
Clinical isokinetic characteristics for professional ballet artists were determined preseason and at "peak" season. Twenty-eight dancers (equal N/sex) were studied at 45, 90, and 180 per second. The data indicated that, while male relative torques were similar to other athletes previously reported, the females were lower than most other female athletes.
D T, Kirkendall   +5 more
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The heart of a dancer: Noninvasive cardiac evaluation of professional ballet dancers

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1980
Abstract To establish the range of normal cardiovascular variables of professional Ballet dancers and to assess the effect of ballet training on the heart, 30 ballet dancers (15 men and 15 women) from the American Ballet Theatre were studied using physical examination, phonocardiography, electro-cardiography and echocardiography.
J L, Cohen   +3 more
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Degenerative Joint Disease in Female Ballet Dancers

The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1995
The relationship between long-term ballet dancing and eventual arthrosis of the hip, ankle, subtalar, and first metatarsophalangeal joint was examined in 19 former professional female dancers, aged 50 to 70 years. The dancers were compared with pair-matched controls.
van Dijk, C. N.   +4 more
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Trigger toe in classical-ballet dancers

Archives of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery, 1985
Classical ballet involves extreme physical demands on the body--in part, strains beyond the physiological limits. Balance on the tips of the toes en pointe means extreme plantar flexion of the ankle and first toe in the weight-bearing position. We have treated two cases of stenosing tendovaginitis of the flexor hallucis longus tendon.
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Eating Psychopathology in Ballet Dancers: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

Eating and Weight Disorders, 2022
Francesco Rotella   +2 more
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