A cross-sectional design was employed retrospectively to evaluate injuries self-reported by 71 pre-professional ballet dancers over one season. Some of the descriptive findings of this survey were consistent with those of previous research and suggest particular demographic and injury trends in pre-professional ballet. These results include gender distribution, mean age and age range of partici...

Although the musculoskeletal injuries associated with break-dancing which is gaining more popularity among adolescent and young people has been reported, the report regarding a peripheral nerve injury associated with breakdance is scarce. We report a rare case of a young amateur break-dancer, 'b-boy' who suffered from a painful paresthesia in his left hand, later diagnosed as type III Guyon's c...

People might assume that dancing with a digital avatar would be relatively distant, dehumanizing or disembodied process. However, in this article we propose effective and creative choreographic practice can achieved by working virtual representation of dancer, offer two case studies to evidence the practical application motion capture technology within context. We observed model quickly natural...

The aim of the present study was to examine whether the workload, expressed in oxygen uptake and heart rate, during dance class and rehearsal prepared the dancer for performance. Previous research on the demands of class and performance has been affected by equipment limitations and could only provide limited insight into the physiological demands placed on the dancer. The present study noted t...

The aim of this article is to delve into memory and dance, show how the archive can contribute definitions dance. It offers a personal journey records my dance career, where I revisit reclaim past framed through perspective mature dancer now aged in sixties. Using medium dancefilm, position observer, dancer, recaller, bearer archive. experiment with traces past, overlaid present, introduce dial...

We developed hardware and software tools to enable interactive performances whereby a dancer controls both music and fire. Pyro-technician Pierre D’haenens built at ShowFlamme [10] a patent pending ramp of 20 flames projectors. The height of each flame is individually controlled by software. We developed a light wireless wearable sensor system and video analysis tools for a stereoscopic camera ...

In this paper, we propose a method for the partitioning of dance sequences into multiple periods and motion patterns. The proposed method deploys features in the form of a skeletal representation of the dancer observed through time using multiple depth sensors. This representation is the fusion of skeletal features captured using multiple sensors and combined into a single, more robust, skeleta...

Humans move to the beat of music. Despite the ubiquity and early emergence of this response, some individuals report being unable to feel the beat in music. We report a sample of people without special training, all of whom were proficient at perceiving and producing the musical beat with the exception of one case ("Mathieu"). Motion capture and psychophysical tests revealed that people synchro...