Inaugural RFL Sport and Exercise Medicine and Science Conference

Inaugural RFL Sport and Exercise Medicine and Science Conference

Thackray Museum, Leeds

10th -11th March

This two day meeting will focus on key medical, scientific and performance issues highlighted by current Rugby Football League medical and scientific staff. The conference will be both interactive and interdisciplinary with many themes also being of interest to practitioners working with other sports.

For more information email barryghill@hotmail.com

2009 Conference on Obesity and Health. UK

The obese and the overweight in the UK are still on the increase even after many years of directed research and action. The associated clinical morbidity and social and individual consequences continue to accrue in our communities.

There is now a large workforce undertaking research projects that are now being reported on at all levels of clinical and biochemistry. These activities are providing much understanding of the individual reasons for weight gain. Another workforce is engaged in researching the social and environmental issues behind individual and community weight gain, giving additional perspectives for the management of weight. This conference aims to bring much of this work to our attention.

Check out: http://www.obesityandhealth.co.uk/

Differential roles of the various adipose compartments in obesity

Björntorp Symposium http://www.easoobesity.org/bjorntorp.htm


Stirin Castle, near Prague, Czech Republic
24 - 27 March 2009

Differential roles of the various adipose compartments in obesity
Deadline for receipt of applications has now passed
Hosted by the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and the Endocrine Institute, Prague, the inaugural EASO Björntorp Symposium will create an invaluable opportunity for intense in-depth scientific exchange between experienced internationally renowned scientists and younger research fellows from around Europe.

The scientific programme features some of the world’s leading experts in Obesity Research and there is an opportunity for up to 35 European delegates to attend this prestigious, focussed event. Not only will you be exposed to the latest scientific developments, but you will be able to interact with fellow delegates and some of the most influential Key Opinion Leaders in the field. Click here to download the scientific programme.

The symposium will take place in Stirin Castle, near Prague (Czech Republic). Participants as well as experts are expected to attend all scientific sessions and social events and are required to stay at the Castle for the duration of the event – thus creating an informal but collaborative atmosphere.

Poster presentations will form an important part of the programme and all applicants must submit a 300 word abstract, reasonably pertinent to the theme of the Symposium. All successful applicants must prepare a poster. The proceedings of the Symposium will include papers based on the experts’ lectures and the abstracts for the posters, and will form an issue of Obesity Facts, the official journal of EASO.

For further information, please contact conferences@easo.org

Motor Skill Learning May Be Enhanced By Mild Brain Stimulation

Motor Skill Learning May Be Enhanced By Mild Brain Stimulation

People who received a mild electrical current to a motor control area of the brain were significantly better able to learn and perform a complex motor task than those in control groups.

The study is presented in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, and was conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.

The research team from NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) worked in collaboration with investigators at Columbia University in New York City and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.


Motor skills, which are used for activities from typing and driving to sports, require practise and learning over a prolonged period of time. During practise, the brain encodes information about how to perform the task, but even during periods of rest, the brain is still at work strengthening the memory of doing the task. This process is known as consolidation.

Subjects in this study were presented with a novel and challenging motor task, which involved squeezing a “joy stick” to play a targeting game on a computer monitor, which they practised over five consecutive days. During practise, one group received 20 minutes of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and the other group received only a 30 second “sham” stimulation.

tDCS involves mild electrical stimulation applied through surface electrodes on the head and works by modulating the excitability, or activity, of cells in the brain’s outermost layers. In this study, Dr. Cohen and his team directed tDCS to the primary motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement.

Over the five-day training period, the skill of the tDCS group improved significantly more that that of the control (sham) group, apparently through an effect on consolidation. During the three month follow-up period, the two groups forgot the skill at about the same rate, but the tDCS group continued to perform better because they had learned the skill better by the end of training.

Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke


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Performer's Physicality in the Methods of Meyerhold, M.Chekhov, Stanislavsky

Performer's Physicality in the Methods of

Meyerhold, M.Chekhov, Stanislavsky

Biomechanics

Psychological Gesture

Physical Action

March 9-14

Austria

International Workshop with Russian director, teacher - Sergei Ostrenko

Details: http://www.iugte.com/projects/Meyerhold.php

Programme: intensive practical training, lectures and discussions. Each morning will begin with the warm-up based on the principles of Biomechanics. Participants will be learning one of Meyerhold's etudes.

The Lab will take place in the historic refurbished castle in Leitring bei Leibnitz.

Accommodation and three meals per day for participants are provided.

The working language is English.

To apply for participation, candidates should send CV/résumé with photo and a letter of motivation stating the dates of the event to globtheatre@gmail.com

Only 5 places left in the group!

Photo Gallery of the previous events:
http://picasaweb.google.ru/globtheatre

"BARCELONA DANCE AWARD 2009"

"BARCELONA DANCE AWARD 2009"
EASTER HOLIDAY TIME in Costa Brava - Spain
from 9th to 13rd APRIL 2009


Check out: http://web.tiscali.it/chiucchi/index.html for more details

Sports Medicine & Science Institute DanceScience Development Program International Medical, Scientific and Educational Initiative.

Continuing Education: http://edancescience.org/ Classical Ballet Based Biomechanical Analysis and Orthopedics 101: Undergraduate/Graduate/Professional, Instructor: Stephen M. Apatow, Director of Research and Development. See: Humanitarian University Consortium Continuing Education

Biomechanical Analysis, Correction and Retraining: Reaching the Next Level of Performance in Classical Ballet and Olympic Development Programs. Overview compiled for Sharon Dante, 2005 NYC Dance Teachers Convention.

The Moray House School of Education Postgraduate Study - Taught Degrees MSc in Dance Science & Education

The Moray House School of Education Postgraduate Study - Taught Degrees

MSc in Dance Science & Education " The MSc in Dance Science & Education is an exciting new programme starting in September 2009 " The principal aim of this Master's programme is to provide a foundation in science that can underpin all forms of dance training and educate the development of dance as an art form. The programme has been carefully developed to focus on the scientific that is directly relevant to the process and practices involved in optimising: Dance training Dance education Dance performance Throughout the programme both theoretical and practical work are combined to promote learning and understanding of the key concepts required to become an effective dance scientist. This is achieved through understanding, evaluating and articulating excitingly new and currently evolving research and thinking in dance science to successfully applying and delivering training interventions as a "practitioner" in the environments of dance education, dance participation, and dance performance We are now accepting applications for full- and part-time study starting in September 2009. Contact & Further information: http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught-degrees/MScDSE/index.html Personal consultation is offered to anyone that is considering this programme of study, this can be arranged by contacting the programme coordinator, Wendy Timmons, for an informal chat or visit prior to application. Wendy Timmons Dance Science and Education PE, Sport & Leisure Studies (PESLS) The Moray House School of Education The University of Edinburgh Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6596 Email: wendy.timmons@education.ed.ac.uk Useful links: Prospectus www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate Application Form http://www.postgrad.ed.ac.uk/applicat/form.htm Accommodation Services www.accom.ed.ac.uk Disability Office www.disability-office.ed.ac.uk International Office http://www.international.ed.ac.uk/

Move IT Videos!

Amazing and fun videos - watch now! http://www.moveitdance.co.uk/page.cfm/Action=ExhibitorLibrary/libraryID=2/t=m/SubscriberID=270021/trackLogID=374387_45BB4B443A

From the outlandish to the acrobatic, there are some amazing videos to watch across the whole spectrum of dance styles. What are you waiting for? These videos are all competitors in 'Get On Stage' - the UK's biggest dance competition of the year. Three finalists will perform LIVE in front of an audience of 5,000 at MOVE IT 2009 For your chance to see these dancers perform on stage book your ticket to attend MOVE IT at London's Olympia in March.

Download a copy of the NRG Dance and Health project....findings could be useful for futher research in the area.

NRG Youth Dance & Health project
March 2007 saw the launch of the findings of groundbreaking research undertaken by Hampshire Dance and Laban .
The research assesses the effects of a ten week creative dance programme on the physiological and psychological health and fitness characteristics of school children aged 11-14 years. It has provided the first scientific evidence proving creative dance improves children’s physical and psychological fitness.
You can download the Dance Science Research Report (Pdf 236kb) or the research findings are contained within the NRG Evaluation Report (Pdf 994kb).

University of Wolverhampton Dance Science research:

Areas of research interest include:

• The stability and cushioning characteristics of different jazz shoes
• The development of novel dance shoes and clothing
• Development of dance specific field tests
• Movement analysis within dance performance
• Posterior ankle pain during pointe is related to posterior malleolus downward slope and/or superior calcaneal tuberosity prominence
• Classical ballet dancers have bony variations that cause pain during dance; these are increased with more years of participation in dance
• Radiographically measured ankle range-of-motion is less than clinically measured range-of-motion and is less still than the angle demarcated by the tibial shaft, center of the talocrural joint, and the tip of the first distal phalanx
• When en pointe the anterior joint space is wider than the posterior joint space secondary to a fulcrum created by the posterior malleolus and posterior talus and/or calcaneus
• In most pointe dancers the posterior tibial plafond articulates with non-articular surfaces on the posterior talus and calcaneus
• Posterior distraction of the ankle joint occurs during demiplié secondary to anterior talotibial impingement creating an anterior fulcrum
• In vitro ligament tension can be measured directly using an innovative fibre optic instrumentation technique
• Associations between dance performance and selected fitness parameters
• Associations between dance performance and selected fitness parameters
• Do increases in selected fitness parameters affect dance performance?
• Does physical fitness affect rate of injury in dance dancers?
• Effect of fatigue on dance movement
• Are dancers genetically different from normal and athletic populations

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=12643

'Ask Ava'

Dance UK - The National Voice For Dance - health faqs / agony aunt

Dance injury. Nutrition and weight. Fitness and strength. Psychology.

'Ask Ava' your health or fitness related question

If you have a specific health or fitness related question the FAQs do not address, submit your question to our resident Agony Aunt for a personal response. Agony Aunt advice is provided by former professional dancer and dance scientist Ava Barron MSc and supported by our advisory committees where appropriate. All queries are treated in confidence by Dance UK staff.

http://www.danceuk.org/metadot/index.pl?id=22616

Dance Science Article

• Dance Science

‘Laban’s MSc Dance Science is significantly contributing to the growing field and knowledge base of dance science and health, producing quality dance scientists to work with the UK’s quality performers.’

Caroline Miller, Director, Dance UK

Review full aticle at: http://www.laban.org/home/health_pilates/_dance_science.phtml

Daisy Pledger Workshops

Chck out up comming events from this talented teacher:

http://www.daisypledger.com/Site/Upcoming_Events.html

Knol: a unit of knowledge

Knol: a unit of knowledge

Check out some of my articles... they can only improve!!

Freelance seminars

Dance injuries, treatment and prevention: Over 80% of dancers get injured during their careers. This lecture will provide dancers and teachers with the knowledge to recognise dance specific injuries, provide basic initial care to injuries and discover prevention techniques. Particular emphasis is placed on safe practice with additional handouts providing information on warming up/cooling down, injury recognition injury management and nutritional requirements.

Psychological issues in dance: performance anxiety, motivation & goal setting, and how to boost confidence & self-esteem. Dancers and teachers will learn psychological techniques that they can put into practice to enhance their dance performance and training. This lecture can include all elements or focus on just one or more of the topics in further depth.

Drug use and dancing: The effects of cigarette smoking and recreational drugs on the dancers’ body and performance. Topics covered in this lecture will include the general effects of smoking and ‘street’ drugs upon body systems, long term effects as well as instantaneous effects specific to dance performance. Information can be offered on where confidential help and support can be sought in relation to covered topics.

Nutrition and hydration needs of the dancer. This lecture aims to provide dancers with the information to make healthy food choices. Particular focus is given to basic food groups, hydration requirements, pre-performance meal scheduling and the reasoning behind why good nutrition is so important for a good performance. The dancer will learn ways to create their own healthy eating plan on a budget.

Explaining dance specific scientific findings. Dance medicine and science is a rapidly growing area dedicated to improving dancers’ health and training. This informative lecture will provide an overview and explain some of the latest findings in ‘Plain English’. Aimed at the teacher and dancer particularly interested in the technical advancement of dance training techniques.

How to stay fit over the holiday break: prevent losing fitness and flexibility and minimise the risk of injury at the beginning of term. A lecture principally designed for vocational students and professional dancers, it will include general information on ‘fitness to dance’ Students will learn how to plan a personal holiday training programme as well as applying the fitness knowledge to their term time activities.

Getting fit for dance not staying fit through dance. Including some of the points from the previous lecture, the focus of this topic is incorporating supplementary training within the dance training framework. Dancers and teachers will learn to balance techniques to improve aerobic capacities & stamina, strength and relaxation without resulting in overtraining and burnout. The elements of physical fitness will be discussed along with the importance of being ‘fit’ to dance.

Private Classical Ballet Tuition

IADMS

IADMS

IADMS is pleased to announce that the 19th Annual Meeting of IADMS will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands at the renowned Koninklijke Schouwburg (Royal Theatre), hosted by the Dutch Performing Arts Medicine Association, Medical Centre for Dancers and Musicians, and the Medical Centre of The Hague from October 29-31, 2009. The 19th Annual Meeting will be followed by Special Interest Groups Day on Sunday, November 1, 2009

Dance UK - The National Voice For Dance - Call for Papers - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE SCIENCE

Dance UK - The National Voice For Dance - Call for Papers - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE SCIENCE

CORD 2009 | De Montfort University - Leicester, UK

CORD 2009 De Montfort University - Leicester, UK

Conference - The Royal Society of Medicine

Conference - The Royal Society of Medicine

Dance medicine: the female athlete triad and hypermobility
Monday 20 April 2009
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
organised by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with Dance UK
Participating Sections:Sport & Exercise Medicine Section, Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Section

Dance UK - The National Voice For Dance - Launch

Dance UK - The National Voice For Dance - Launch

Move IT 2009!

Love to Dance? Love Move it?

This comming March the UK's biggest dancing exhibition brings together every style of dance uder one roof for three fantastic days.

At MOVE IT 2009 you can watch over 100 live performances, take your pick of 250 dance classes from every genre and meet up to 160 dance surplers. Lose those inhabitions and bring those dancing shoes, this is one show not to be missed!

www.moveitdance.co.uk