purpose student circus artists train as both artists and athletes with their bodies holding the key to professional success. the daily training load of student circus artists is often associated with maximum physical and psychological stress with injuries posing a threat to a potential professional career. the purpose of this study is the differentiated analysis and evaluation of work accidents...

Objective: To evaluate the relations of anomalous experiences with five overexcitabilities, cumulative trauma exposure, and Beyond Personal creative process, samples performing artists, athletes, control participants. Method: This is a cross-sectional study (N = 454) in which participants were administered one session self-report instruments to assess overexcitability dimensions, past childhood...

Performing artists are athletes. Like athletes, performing artists practice and/or perform most days with little off season, play through pain, "compete" in challenging environments, and risk career-threatening injury. Athletes and the Arts is a multiorganizational initiative linking the sport athlete and musician/performing artist communities. Performing artists of all ages and genre are an un...

In this paper we present a method for automatically assigning tags to music artists in the Web 2.0 radio Last.fm. Starting with the reference list of Last.fm user-defined tags, our method mines Wikipedia music artist abstracts for new tag candidates. Tag candidates are ranked using an heuristic weighting function. We evaluate the top ranked tag suggestion for about 31,000 artists by (i) perform...

In two previous papers, we have focused on summarizing and visualizing the edits of a single workflow and visualizing and merging the edits of two independent workflows. In this paper, we focus on visualizing the similarities and dissimilarities of many workflows where digital artists perform similar tasks. The tasks have been chosen so each artist starts and ends with a common state. We show h...

Professional performing artists routinely manage stressful demands encountered during public performances. Fourteen professional performing artists (6 dancers, 6 opera singers, and 2 conductors) rehearsed and performed in a concert hall setting while wearing the Vivometric LifeShirt, an ambulatory instrument that measures autonomic regulation. Contrary to our hypothesis, that greater parasympat...

The fields of sports medicine and performing arts medicine have begun recent initiatives to collaborate more closely and to share information pertinent to the treatment of athletes and performing artists. This article provides a review of the common musculoskeletal and neurological problems encountered among performing artists who play instruments. Approaches to history, examination, diagnosis,...