Flexibility has been a main skill within dance, with many dancers always wanting to increase their mobility range. In the studio you often marvel at the dancer with the highest legs or the deepest plié. While having an achievable goal, a suitable role model and a safe way of achieving the goal can make the… Continue reading Flexibility: The truth as I understand it
Ballet is a style that is very prominent within the dance industry. It is often the first style of dance a child will engage with. It may also be one style of dance that has stood through time remaining, in most cases, in it's classical form. However, like all styles, ballet is adapting and creating… Continue reading Boundaryless Ballet: How choreographers are now opening up the possibilities of the classical form.
Parkinson's is a neurological condition that most often affects adults over the age of 60, although rare, it can also present itself within adults under the age of 50. It is said that 1 in 500 people have Parkinson's, so within the UK that's around 128,000 people living with Parkinson's. While it is important to note that suffers of… Continue reading Dance For Parkinson’s: Why I encourage the older generation to dance.
Dance Science, like many other areas of science is best quantified by it's aims, rather than it's methods. This is due largely to the collective approach of science and no method can be defined as just being useful to one area of science. That being said dance science draws largely on methods of social science… Continue reading So what is Dance Science?
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