the present research was performed to investigate the effects of aerobic dance with different durations on salivary cortisol and testosterone,and consequently on the mood and body mass of inactive young women. the design of the research was quasi–experimental and the sample consisted of 19 inactive young women (mean age: 30+3 years, height: 167+5.1 cm, weight: 65.5+7.4) who were randomly divide...

Automatic recognition of dance gesture is one important research area in computer vision with many potential applications. Bali traditional dance comprises of many dance gestures that relatively unchanged over the years. Although previous studies have reported various methods for recognizing gesture, to the best of our knowledge, a method to model and classify dance gesture of Bali traditional ...

Title: Dance Movement Therapy and Sensory Integration: An integrated approach to working with children Sarah E. Cleary Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy Naropa University, December 1, 2002 Nicole McGough, Thesis Committee Chairperson This thesis addresses a therapeutic approach to working with children in dance movement therapy settings. During these sessions, the dance therapists were a...

Dancing is an entertaining form of taskless interaction. When interacting with a dancing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA), the lack of a clear task presents the challenge of eliciting an interaction between user and ECA in a different way. In this paper we describe our Virtual Dancer, which is an ECA that invites a user to dance. In our system the user is monitored using global movement char...

This paper reports on the development of three automatic composition systems for dance that use 3D motion data captured from the performances of professional dancers. The systems can generate short choreographic works in three genres of dance: hip-hop dance, contemporary dance, and classical ballet. The authors label the method of automatic composition as analytic-synthetic choreography, where ...

With the evolution of intelligent devices, sensors, and ambient intelligent systems, it is not surprising to see many research projects starting to explore the design of intelligent artifacts in the area of art and technology; these projects take the form of art exhibits, interactive performances, and multi-media installations. In this paper, we seek to propose a new architecture for an ambient...

Dance movements are a complex class of human behavior which convey forms of non-verbal and subjective communication that are performed as cultural vocabularies in all human cultures. The singularity of dance forms imposes fascinating challenges to computer animation and robotics, which in turn presents outstanding opportunities to deepen our understanding about the phenomenon of dance by means ...

Within the dance world, gender (as a binary concept) appears to be central to lived experience. Whilst dance is known as a feminine activity, males tend to be even more in the minority in more ‘feminised’ genres, such as ballet. However, in other genres, such as street dance, which allows them to conform to a more traditionally masculine identity, they are in the majority. Regardless of genre, ...

Dance Confidence, Age and Gender 2 ABSTRACT Dance Confidence is a measure of domain-specific self-esteem as applied to how a person feels about their social and recreational dance ability. This study is concerned with how dance confidence varies as a function of gender and age group. 13,715 people watched a video and then completed an on-line survey. The results show that dance confidence varie...