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Injury as a stressor in 67 first year contemporary dance students: a longitudinal cohort study [PDF]
IntroductionIn athletes, injuries lead to increased stress but athletes cope better with subsequent than with first-time-injury. In dancers such information is lacking.
Judith-Elisa Kaufmann +8 more
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Belly Dancer Dyskinesia During Pregnancy: Case Report from Harar, Eastern Ethiopia
Tadesse Gure Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haramaya University, Harar, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Tadesse Gure Tel +251913868714Email tadebuna@yahoo.comIntroduction: Belly dancer dyskinesia (BDD) is an involuntary waving and writhing type of ...
Tadesse Gure
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Angela Viora, “Phenomenology of big hair caught up in the wind at night” (2:25); Al Evangelista, “How to dance with Filipinx ancestors?” (4:42); Sonia York-Pryce, “Sôma” (4:48); Claire Vionnet and André Dramé, “Dereskina” (5:39); W.
Al Evangelista +6 more
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Epidemiology of injuries connected with dance: a critical review on epidemiology [PDF]
The aim of this review was to identify all types of injuries connected to the gestures of dancers and understand the associated biomechanical patterns. This is the first step in the definition of a prevention program that lacks in this kind of athletic ...
Giuseppe Rinonapoli +5 more
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The relationship between the dancers’ and the audience’s aesthetic experience [PDF]
The study investigates the aesthetic experience of a dance performance from the perspective of both the dancers and the audience. The audience observed three short custom-made choreographies that were presented live and then watched the recorded versions,
Vukadinović Maja S., Marković Slobodan
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Dancers’ heart: Cardiac screening in elite dancers [PDF]
AbstractUsing electrocardiography and echocardiography, we screened elite men and women ballet dancers for abnormal cardiovascular conditions using an observation design with blinded clinical analysis of cardiac function tests. Fifty‐eight (females n = 33) elite professional ballet dancers (age: 26.0 ± 5.7 years, body mass index: 19.9 ± 2.2 kg/m2) with
George S. Metsios +4 more
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IntroductionDance is an art form that integrates the body and mind through movement. Dancers develop exceptional physical and mental abilities that involve various neurocognitive processes linked to embodied cognition.
Ching-Ju Yang +15 more
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The Physical Consequence to Knowing: A speculative report
This is my first attempt at approaching the notion of agency as a practice though the mode of dancing and writing; deconstructing and reconstructing what I know experientially and what I am trying to comprehend theoretically.
pavleheidler
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Extension of Dancer’s Legs: Increasing Angles Show Motion
Usain Bolt’s Lightning Bolt pose, one arm highly extended to one side, suggests action. Likewise, static pictures of animals, legs extended, show animation. We tested a new cue for motion perception—extension—and in particular extension of dancer’s legs.
Stefano Mastandrea, John M. Kennedy
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From the DOP Petroglyph Unit Archives: an Old Kingdom “dancing girl” image from Site 30/450-E4-6 [PDF]
The rock art discovered in the 1980s and 1990s by the Dakhleh Oasis Project Petroglyph Unit is for the most part unpublished or only briefly mentioned in reports. The paper—the first of a planned series—offers a description and brief comparative study of
Paweł L. Polkowski
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