DANCE SCIENCE: NEW KNOWLEDGE AND (FREE) MATERIALS
Ballet has changed a lot from the aristocrats at the court of Louis XIV to today's artistic performers. Although both the choreographies and the dancers have evolved, the training methods have remained partly unchanged. Fortunately, dance science has been questioning common training methods for several decades and clarifying them with new approaches from research.
New study on spotting
In a recently published study in the Human Movement Science Journal, Andrea Schärli, head of the study program at the University of Bern, and researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz investigated how the spotting technique affects dizziness and postural stability after repeated body rotations in dancers.
In the study, 34 professional dancers performed active and passive turns, some with and some without spotting. The results showed that this dance technique significantly reduced dizziness, but only improved postural stability during passive spins. In active turns, spotting had no effect on stability. These findings emphasize the importance of technique in specific situations and encourage further investigation.
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Documentation
In this context, we would like to draw your attention to interesting organizations from the field of dance science that provide extensive documentation for everyday dance:
- Dance Science Uni Bern
- IADMS
- Trinity Laban
- TAMED
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