Dance on TV this week....12/05/2009 - 18/05/2009

Title: Switched
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 12 May 09, 04:15 (20 mins)
Channels: E4
Programme Type: Documentary
Category: Reality TV
Description: US reality series in which two teenagers from
different cities swap places. Ballet dancer Drew
is not happy when he learns that he is switching
lives with platoon sergeant Tyler in military
school. As Drew wakes up at dawn and learns how
to do morning formations, Tyler puts on a pair of
tights, learns how to do pilates and performs a
pas de deux

Title: Dido and Aeneas from the Royal Opera House
Broadcast Info: Friday 15 May 09, 20:05 (65 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Programme Type: Music & Arts
Category: Ballet
Director: Jonathan Haswell
Performers: Sarah Connolly
Lucas Meachum
Description: Marking the 350th anniversary of Henry Purcell's
birth is a new production of Dido and Aeneas, a
short operatic masterpiece which brings together
the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet and is
directed by Wayne McGregor, the Royal Ballet's
resident choreographer. British mezzo-soprano
Sarah Connolly sings the role of Dido and
American baritone Lucas Meachum is Aeneas. The
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is
conducted by the period instrument pioneer
Christopher Hogwood

Title: How It's Made
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 17:30 (30 mins)
Channels: Discovery Science
Programme Type: Documentary
Description: Revealing how everyday items are made. Experts
discuss how wood-burning stoves, ballet slippers,
buses and orthoses are produced

Title: Mad For Dance
Episode: Nabina
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 11:55 (5 mins)
Channels: Community Channel
Programme Type: Documentary
Description: People with mental health issues talk about their
passion for dance. Nabina has been diagnosed with
Bipolar Disorder, but copes by choreographing
eastern-inspired dances


Title: Hairspray
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 12:45 (120 mins)
Channels: Sky Movies Premier 2
Programme Type: Film
Category: Musical
Director: Adam Shankman
Performers: Michelle Pfeiffer
James Marsden
Queen Latifah
Christopher Walken
John Travolta
Amanda Bynes
Country: US
UK
Year: 2007
Description: Remake of the cult musical satire set in 1962
Baltimore. A chubby teenager who dreams of
stardom has a run-in with the star of a hit
teenage dance show and her hair-lacquered mother.
Not content with ousting the local rich kid, the
rotund-yet-rhythmic heroine and her friends cause
a race riot on TV dance-fest 'The Corny Collins
Show' when they bring along a few black friends

Congress on Research in Dance

Global perspectives on dance pedagogy - research and practice
25-27th June 2009
CEPA
The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Performance Arts
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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This peer-reviewed conference celebrates the growing interest in the relationship between dance research and dance pedagogy in all its forms. It brings together an international constituency to identify cutting edge research in the area as a basis for future development. A global perspective is especially important in the recognition of the range of discourses.

The conference includes papers, demonstrations and workshops on current approaches to pedagogy. We warmly welcome researchers, scholars, teachers, dancers, writers and all who are interested in dance from around the world. Please join us to discuss and debate global perspectives in the research and practice of dance pedagogy.

Our keynote speakers will be announced soon, followed by a full programme of presenters.

Up to date information will be available on both the CEPA and CORD websites. The CEPA webiste can be found at:
www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/cepa/

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Specific queries about the Conference can be addressed to lbarnsley@dmu.ac.uk.

Questions regarding conference registration and CORD membership should be addressed to the CORD National Office at Ashanti@cordance.org.

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Information about De Montfort University and Leicester can be found at: www.dmu.ac.uk

Musculoskeletal Examination and Interventions of the Dancer using Regional Interdependence as a Framework

Advanced Continuing Education Course July 31, 2009
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, NY
HARKNESS
CENTER for Dance Injuries
Faculty
Mark Bookhout, MS, PT, FAAOMPT
Marshall Hagins, PhD, PT
Marijeanne Liederbach, PhD, PT, ATC, CSCS
Marika Molnar, PT, LAc
Registration and Additional Information:
www.danceinjury.orgCourse Description
T his is a new course for advanced clinicians who work with dancers.
Lectures and Lab Topics
· What is regional interdependence?
· Why is this model relevant for the dance population?
A review of normal biomechanics of the lower quarter during gait,
relevé, plié and passé
· Seeing patterns in complex systems: preventing limitations in current
evidence from blinding the clinician
· Review of patterns commonly seen among dancer patients who present
with lower extremity complaints
· Local and non-local influences on lower extremity complaints
Course Fees
Early Bird Special (by May 29th)………..… $295
Registration (Deadline July 15th)………….. $325
Walk-In (Space permitting)……………….... $375
Target Audience
This course is intended for licensed healthcare practitioners with a basic
knowledge of dance medicine. Completion of our “Principles of Dance
Medicine” course, or the equivalent, is recommended.
Certified Athletic Trainers, Chiropractors, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians,
Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists, and Podiatrists.
Continuing Education Units provided
New York Society for Continuing Education in Physical Therapy, Inc has
awarded 0.8 CEUs for this course.
The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries is recognized by the Board of
Certification, Inc to offer continuing education for Certified Athletic Trainer

Doctors Work To Prevent Career-Ending Sports Injuries

04/07/2009 11:17 AM retrieved from: http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/health/96985/doctors-work-to-prevent-career-ending-sports-injuries/Default.aspx

If a young Mikhail Baryshnikov and LeBron James were to go down with the same injury at the same time, who'd be most likely to recover faster? NY1 Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel explains why researchers at one local hospital are hoping to learn from comparing dancers to sports athletes.

Chances are if you are a serious dancer or sports athlete, you've also had some serious injuries.

"I was actually jumping during rehearsal. We were doing fast jumps and I landed kind of funny so that took me out for six months," recalls professional ballerina Alexandra Jacob.

"I came down on a bad spot on the floor after dancing for a couple weeks and I had broken a ligament and pulled a bone," says Sam Wilson, another professional ballet dancer.

"Injuries that I've had related to sports are really devastating because then you have to sit and watch your team play and for someone who loves the sport it can really be emotionally and mentally strenuous," says college volleyball player Staren Soanes.

To help prevent what can sometimes be career-threatening injuries, doctors at the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases have been investigating the differences in how dancers and athletes move – particularly in reference to picking up anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries impacting knees.

"We've done a study on dancers where we found that there is no gender difference between male and female dancers with regard to the incidents with ACL injury," explains Dr. Marjeanne Liederbach at the Harkness Center. "And so we further looked into the way dancers land from jumps because landing from a jump is the most common mechanism of injury for these non-contact ACL injuries in both athletes and dancers."

In a demonstration for NY1, researchers hooked up dancers from the Dance Theater of Harlem and a Baruch College volleyball player with reflective markers and electrodes. High speed cameras around the room record their leaps, jumps, and slips.

To capture the dancers and sports athletes' movements, study investigators are using the same 3D technology used to make movies like "The Matrix."

"What this lab is able to do is look at muscle activity, look at forces," says Liederbach. "When the athlete or dancer in the study lands on the floor, we're able to look at how much force is exerted up through their musculoskeletal system, and with all of the cameras, we're able to measure joint angles during the entire movement phases that we're testing."

Research has already shown that dancers suffer from fewer ACL injuries than athletes. They're also seeing dancers land very differently than how athletes land. Doctors say because dancers are trained differently, perhaps it's something the athletes can learn from.

Through their study, which they hope to complete by summer, doctors believe they may be able develop more suggestions to prevent injuries in both types of athletes.

Meyerhold, M.Chekhov, Stanislavsky - biomechanics, psychological gesture, physical action

International workshop with the Russian director and teacher Sergei Ostrenko

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



B i o m e c h a n i c s

P s y c h o l o g i c a l G e s t u r e

P h y s i c a l A c t i o n



April 27-May 2 - Marfa Bay, MALTA



The Lab is offering five places for reduced participation fee - 355 EUR

The fee covers participation in the workshop programme, accommodation and meals.

REGISTRATION. To apply for participation with the discount, candidates should send CV/resume with photo and a letter of motivation stating the dates of the event to Michael Cooperman, Project Coordinator michael@artuniverse.org



PROGRAMME. Intensive practical training, lectures, discussions. The programme is focused on the practical exploration of performer’s psycho-physical instrument in the teachings of the Russian outstanding theatrical innovators - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov and Konstantin Stanislavsky. The Lab is open to performers interested to explore the principles of Biomechanics, Psychological Gesture and Physical Action, to gain a deeper understanding of psycho-physical approach in contemporary performer’s training and its application in practical work - rehearsal process, performance and teaching.

http://www.artuniverse.org/projects/Meyerhold.php

The Lab will take place at the resort in Marfa Bay. The resort is situated in one of the most picturesque and charming bays in the north of Malta, just across the channel from the Islands of Gozo and Comino. The place enjoys a quiet and relaxing location, immersed in pristine countryside and boasting unspoilt shoreline and sea.

http://www.artuniverse.org/projects/mellieha.malta.php

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