Locked together by their need for partners in sexual reproduction, the sexes undergo an antagonistic dance to the music of time.. . .the 'evolutionary dance' that has been used as a metaphor to describe the process of sexually antagonistic coadaptation may be better regarded not simply as a couple moving across a dance floor, but as a couple who leave a trail of destruction that they must negot...

In this paper we propose an approach for the representation of dance gestures in Samba dance. This representation is based on a video analysis of body movements, carried out from the viewpoint of the musical meter. Our method provides the periods, a measure of energy and a visual representation of periodic movement in dance. The method is applied to a limited universe of Samba dances and music,...

The need for superior performance in dance has impelled teachers and choreographers to use increasingly effective and sophisticated methods of preparation. To that end, such modalities ofbiomechanics as advanced motion-capture, muscle-function and muscle-strength techniques are being used to provide useful information about which of the dancers' needs require special attention. This often invol...

The dance of Siva has a cosmic appeal. Nowhere has this dance been crystallised in its pristine form as in the Nataraja Bronzes from the Chola period. Mysticism surrounds the dancing form of the Nataraja. But does Nataraja dance upon an endocrine mystery. Does the demon under his feet Apasmara literally forgetfulness or epilepsy have an endocrine disorder. The short limbed stocky eye popping dw...

In this paper we present a real-time dance visualization framework with the goal of easily mapping motion data from an accelerometer and a gyroscope into visual effects that users can compose and appropriate to their own dancing style. We used this framework to design a set of dance-tovisuals mappings through a user-centered approach. As a result, we conclude with a list of factors that help us...

BACKGROUND Self-help and physical leisure activities has become increasingly important in the maintenance of safe and functional mobility among an increasingly elderly population. Preventing the cycle of deterioration, falling, inactivity, dependency, and secondary complications in people with Parkinson disease (PD) is a priority. Research has shown that people with PD are interested in dance a...

In a recent article inTREE, Grüter and Farina [1] point out that in honeybee dance language the communication of spatial (navigational) information is embedded in several additional informational components. As a consequence, followers of dances do not need to perceive or use the spatial information encoded in the dances to show adaptive foraging behavior. However, whether this is sufficient to...

This study investigates the first stage of the decision-making process of a honeybee swarm as it chooses a nest site: how a scout bee codes the value of a potential nest site in the waggle dances she produces to represent this site. We presented honeybee swarms with a two-alternative choice between a high-value site and a medium-value site and recorded the behavior of individually identifiable ...

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance is one of the most intriguing animal communication signals. A dancing bee communicates the location of a profitable food source and its odour. Followers may often experience situations in which dancers indicate an unfamiliar location but carry the scent of a flower species the followers experienced previously at different locations. Food scents often r...

The video game Dance Dance Revolution is a musicbased game of timing. The game plays music and shows patterns of arrows synchronized with the music. The player stands on a platform marked with the same four arrows shown in the game and earns a score based on how closely his steps match the timing of the video game. A pattern of steps for a given song is called a step chart, and each step chart ...