Human dance was investigated with positron emission tomography to identify its systems-level organization. Three core aspects of dance were examined: entrainment, meter and patterned movement. Amateur dancers performed small-scale, cyclically repeated tango steps on an inclined surface to the beat of tango music, without visual guidance. Entrainment of dance steps to music, compared to self-pac...

Physical changes associated with puberty may conflict with functional and aesthetic ideals for a career in ballet. The dance teacher is in a position to guide young dancers through the pubertal transition, although dancers rather than teachers are often the focus of research. This study explores the social stimulus value of the female body in ballet as perceived by the dance teacher and how val...

Honey bees (Apis sp.) are the only known bee genus that uses nest-based communication to provide nest-mates with information about the location of resources, the so-called “dance language.” Successful foragers perform waggle dances for high quality food sources and, when swarming, suitable nest-sites. However, since many species of social insects do not communicate the location of resources to ...

Gesture recognition means the identification of different expressions of human body parts to express the idea, thoughts and emotion. It is a multi-disciplinary research area. The application areas of gesture recognition have been spreading very rapidly in our real-life activities including dance gesture recognition. Dance gesture recognition means the recognition of meaningful expression from t...

Dancing emphasizes the motor expression of emotional experiences. The bodily expression of emotions can modulate the subjective experience of emotions, as when adopting emotion-specific postures and faces. Thus, dancing potentially offers a ground for emotional coping through emotional enhancement and regulation. Here we investigated the emotional responses to music in individuals without any p...

As quoting in the philosophy of free dance: «Understanding the directions for a Free Dance performer stems mainly from the qualities and energy of the movement rather from spatial criteria», we advocate that dance movement is not only to perform a desired motion but also to feel and to transmit “sensation (expression)” by body and energy. Dynamic models are particularly adequate for this object...

OBJECTIVES To compare the physiological responses and ratings of perceived exertion to aerobic dance and walking sessions completed at a self selected pace. METHODS Six women and six men with a sample mean (SD) age of 68 (7) years completed aerobic dance and walking sessions in random order. A treadmill test was performed by each subject from which peak oxygen uptake (.VO(2)) and maximum hear...

From Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, and Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne, IN. Address Correspondence: Joseph D. Fortin, DO, Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, 7230 Engle Road, Suite 210, Fort Wayne, IN 46804. Email: [email protected] Funding: There was no external funding in preparation of this manuscript. The nature, type and frequency of injuries occurring at a national ...

Résumé. Remplacer des hypothèses sur le modèle de données par des informations mesurées sur les données réelles est l’une des forces de la fouille de données. Cet article étudie cet ajustement entre les données et les méthodes de découverte de motifs pour en évaluer la qualité et la complexité. Nous formalisons ce lien entre données et mesures d’intérêt en identifiant les motifs liés qui sont c...

Various lifelike computer characters have been proposed in recent years [LCC’94, LCC’95]. In this paper, we introduce an innovative way of using a lifelike computer character to enhance the human-human and human-computer communication. We propose an interactive performance system in which a virtual CG dancer enables two players (musicians) to interact with each other not only through music but ...