The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of centre of pressure (COP) and centre of mass (COM) fluctuations in ballet dancers standing quietly. Ten healthy young women performing classic ballet dance as recreational exercise (dancer group) and 10 healthy non-ballet dancers young women who were not ballet dancers (control group) participated in this study. Participants were in...

Traditionally, prosthetic leg research has focused on improving mobility for activities of daily living. Artistic expression such as dance, however, is not a common research topic and consequently prosthetic technology for dance has been severely limited for the disabled. This work focuses on investigating the ankle joint kinetics and kinematics during a Latin-American dance to provide unique m...

Motivation and theoretical perspective. Morphological derivation is the process of forming new words (derived terms) from existing ones (base terms) such as nominalization. E.g., the English noun dancer is derived from the verb dance by applying the agentive suffix -er. In contrast to inflection, which changes the grammatical properties of the base term, derivation arguably creates a new lexica...

Sound of Rivers: Stone Drum is a multimedia collaboration, between choreographer Nicole Bradley Browning, animator and video artist Amber Marjorie Bushnell, poet and narrator Mark Gibbons, and composer and electric violinist Charles Nichols, with dancer Allison Herther and narrator Stephen Kalm. The piece illuminates research by scientist Mark Lorang, into how fish and insects navigate the ecos...

Training in motor skills such as athletics, dance, or gymnastics is not possible today except in the direct presence of the coach/instructor. This paper describes a computer vision based gesture recognition system which is used to metamorphose the user into a Virtual person, e.g. as a Kathakali dancer, which is graphically recreated at a near or distant location. Thus this can be seen by an o -...

Break dancing is a popular activity in teenagers and is associated with severe trauma to bones and tissues. We report the first known case of a break dancer with an ulnar stress fracture. Such injuries occur in a variety of sports due to substantial stress on the ulna and repetitive excessive rotation of the forearm. In this study we describe a patient who experienced an ulnar stress fracture d...

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) was originally characterised as a DNA sliding clamp for replicative DNA polymerases and as an essential component of the eukaryotic chromosomal DNA replisome. Subsequent studies, however, have revealed its striking ability to interact with multiple partners, which are involved in several metabolic pathways, including Okazaki fragment processing, DNA rep...

This article is concerned with the ways in which gendered subjectivities are reconstituted within and through contemporary cinematic depictions of dance in films such as Center Stage (2000), Save the Last Dance (2001), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), Step Up (2006) and The Company (2003). [1] My discussion explores the insightful, but largely unaccounted for, areas of overlap between femin...