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Is There Really Anything New?
Simplicity is being lost, except in the very highest levels of competition. Says Barry Gasson
Barbara Ambroz workshop the Cuban Experience
Another look at the Cuban Experience 2014 By Sasha Pust
How To Get A Dancer’s Body
By Joel Minden
Creating the look of a dancer is one thing, but a dancer's body is also characterized by fitness. Should dancers rely on aerobic training or "cardio" for conditioning? Let's consider the nature of a highly athletic form of dancing to determine whether aerobic exercise should be part of your approach to developing the body of a dancer
What Makes Elite Ballroom Dancers Better?
By Joel Minden
To answer this question, Prosen et al. (2013) examined movement quality of ballroom dancers competing at a world-class competition, the 2011 International Slovenia Open. Comparisons were made between top-ranked (placed in the top 12) and lower-ranked (placed in the bottom 12) couples
Devotion to the motion …
By Ruud Vermeij
Because a dancer is a person he or she can never be wholly abstract. A male person is a man dancing, a female person is a woman dancing. Together the statement is made.
Rhythmic quality in dance is more objective than it seems
By Xavier Mora
This article is part of a project that aims at changing this state of affairs. It is a sequel to a more technical paper that makes use of some mathematics.
The road Maps
By Martha Harper
Let’s take a minute and go back to the initial question, “Are We Having Fun Yet?” The key word here is “We.” Are you doing what you want to do for a career, or is this just to tide you over until the real thing comes along? You may think you’re fooling your customer, but this is ballroom dancing and when you’re in close quarters and physically connect, the truth usually surfaces sooner rather than later.
The Physics of Dance Master Class
You can move in any direction by even taking one of the blocks of weight out of alignment: such as just head, ribs, hips, or knees. Your body will fall in the direction of the movement. Not breaking down every little movement you make, you have to determine according to the feeling of balance, character of dance, what foot you are on, etc, which block of weight should be leading.
A time-motion analysis of turns …
Video recordings of highly ranked Viennese waltz dancers were processed automatically using computer vision tracking algorithms under operator supervision to calculate movement parameters.
It Takes Two To Tango
Keith Morris talks about fundamentals and how they just cannot change also speaking with Ashley Frohlick about time signature