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PubMed1989

The effect of low impact dance training on aerobic capacity, submaximal heart rates and body composition of college-aged females.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 12 week program of low impact aerobic dance conditioning on VO2max, submaximal heart rates and body composition of college-aged women. Sixteen women exercised three times per week for approximately 45 minutes per session at 75-85% of their heart rate reserve. VO2max was measured by indirect calorimetry using a treadmill protocol. Submaximal heart rates were measured by electrocardiography, and body fat was assessed by hydrostatic weight. All testing was conducted within one week pre- and posttraining. Training sessions consisted of a 5-10 minute warm up, 30-35 minute low impact aerobic dance segment and a 5 minute cool down. Posttest results revealed a small (7%), but significant increase in VO2max (pre: 38.3 ml/kg/min; post: 41.3 ml/kg/min, X +/- SD, p less than 0.05). Submaximal heart rates at minutes 2-3, 3-4 and 4-5 of the graded exercise test decreased significantly. Body fat decreased from 25 +/- 6.8% to 21 +/- 6.3% (p less than 0.01) with no posttraining change in body weight. It was concluded that low impact aerobic dance is as effective as other endurance training regimens in improving cardiovascular fitness and decreasing body fat.

Adipose Tissue↗
PubMed1984

Dance--a suitable form of exercise? A physiological appraisal.

Dance in its many forms has recently received much attention in the medical literature and considerable promotion in the lay press. This has been in keeping with current awareness of physical fitness, which has been the result of increasing evidence linking cardiovascular disease to physical inactivity, lack of cardiopulmonary fitness and obesity. Many authors have suggested dance as a suitable alternative to 'traditional' forms of exercise for modification of sedentary habits and the maintenance of physical fitness and ideal weight. This review considers the physiological demands and effects resulting from various dance forms and describes the unique alterations in body build and composition, musculo-skeletal and cardiovascular adaptations, and abnormalities in menstrual function and pubertal progression found in dancers.

Body Constitution↗
PubMed1984

Dance medicine.

Dance medicine is a subdivision of sports medicine that utilizes the same basic orthopedic concepts. It studies motions common to dance, which may not be common to other athletic activity, and the injuries that develop secondary to these peculiar movements. The best defense mechanism against injury and overuse syndrome development is a well-toned, strong, flexible body. Appropriate alignment and range of motion of large joints are necessities for dance activity. Biomechanical analyses are useful in treating and guiding the dancer through injuries that she may incur as well as prevention of such injuries. "Forcing the turnout" is a common problem with many dancers. This motion causes pedal pronation and a myriad of overuse syndromes that can be related to pronatory changes.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1997

[Kapoera--popular dance or martial art?].

Kapoera, a combination of acrobatics and coordinated athletic movement, is believed to have been introduced to South America during the 19th century by transported African slaves. The dance does not involve intentional physical contact, but during 6 months, 3 patients were admitted here for injuries induced by the forceful movements of this dance. 2 underwent exploratory laparotomy that revealed bowel perforations and 1 suffered a comminuted nasal bone fracture. Medical personnel should be familiar with the potential hazards of this dance and martial art.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Balinese dance exercises improve the maximum aerobic capacity.

The maximum aerobic capacity can be used to predict the maximum working capacity. The maximum working capacity plays an important role in achieving the best performance. Therefore, physical fitness program for maintaining maximum working capacity is a must. A study on the application of Balinese dance exercise was carried out. Sixty young male Balinese, aged from 17 to 19 years were used as subjects. They were divided into two groups: Experimental group (EG) and control group (CG) based on their VO2max. The EG participated in a program of Balinese dance exercise 3 x 50 min per week for 8 weeks. Pretest-posttest control group design was applied. The maximum aerobic capacity was measured, based on the Modified Harvard Step-up Test and nomogram of Astrand. The results are as follows: there is a very significant improvement of VO2max from 2.7 +/- 0.5 l/min or 51.1 +/- 9.1 ml/kg/min into 3.1 +/- 0.5 l/min or 58.9 +/- 9.8 ml/kg/min. Other parameters such as resting heart rate, blood pressure and percent body fat were decreased significantly. The study concludes that Balinese dance exercise could be used as a program for physical fitness maintenance.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2006

Spatial memory, navigation and dance behaviour in Apis mellifera.

Navigation and dance communication in Apis mellifera have been extensively studied on the level of sensory processing, but the structure and content of the spatial memory underlying such phenomena have yet to be addressed. Here we survey new findings indicating that the memory used by bees to navigate within the range of their orientation flights is much more complex than hitherto thought. It appears to allow them to decide between at least two goals in the field, and to steer towards them over considerable distances. Two models concerning the structure of bees' spatial memory are developed from new empirical evidence. The first one relies on the integration of at least two flight vectors, while the second assumes the existence of a 'functional' map based on the information available on-site. These findings also raise questions about the process of encoding and decoding information in the context of the waggle dance. We review published data and recent evidence indicating that memories of topographical features might also be involved in dance communication, and point out what needs to be addressed to elucidate the corresponding memory demands. The flight paths of recruited bees can now be traced by means of radar techniques, and thus tools are available to tackle these questions.

Animal Communication↗
PubMed2004

Cleaner fish use tactile dancing behavior as a preconflict management strategy.

The most commonly asked question about cooperative interactions is how they are maintained when cheating is theoretically more profitable. In cleaning interactions, where cleaners remove parasites from apparently cooperating clients, the classical question asked is why cleaner fish can clean piscivorous client fish without being eaten, a problem Trivers used to explain reciprocal altruism. Trivers suggested that predators refrain from eating cleaners only when the repeated removal of parasites by a particular cleaner results in a greater benefit than eating the cleaner. Although several theoretical models have examined cheating behavior in clients, no empirical tests have been done (but see Darcy ). It has been observed that cleaners are susceptible to predation. Thus, cleaners should have evolved strategies to avoid conflict or being eaten. In primates, conflicts are often resolved with conflict or preconflict management behavior. Here, I show that cleaner fish tactically stimulate clients while swimming in an oscillating "dancing" manner (tactile dancing) more when exposed to hungry piscivorous clients than satiated ones, regardless of the client's parasite load. Tactile dancing thus may function as a preconflict management strategy that enables cleaner fish to avoid conflict with potentially "dangerous" clients.

Analysis of Variance↗
PubMed2005

The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance.

In the 'dance language' of honeybees, the dancer generates a specific, coded message that describes the direction and distance from the hive of a new food source, and this message is displaced in both space and time from the dancer's discovery of that source. Karl von Frisch concluded that bees 'recruited' by this dance used the information encoded in it to guide them directly to the remote food source, and this Nobel Prize-winning discovery revealed the most sophisticated example of non-primate communication that we know of. In spite of some initial scepticism, almost all biologists are now convinced that von Frisch was correct, but what has hitherto been lacking is a quantitative description of how effectively recruits translate the code in the dance into flight to their destinations. Using harmonic radar to record the actual flight paths of recruited bees, we now provide that description.

Animal Communication↗
PubMed2001

The caring dance.

As nursing and health care practice enter the new Millennium, practitioners are increasingly urged to pay attention to evidenced based practice to justify what they do. Yet the truth is, that within the caring dance, practitioners need to connect with more ancient sources of wisdom. Failure to do so leads to a life out of balance and a failure to dance well and fulfil the fundamental role of being a nurse. The paper draws exclusively on the work of Blackwolf and Gina Jones, as an example of such ancient wisdom to inform and inspire the caring dance.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2002

Dance-based aerobic exercise may improve indices of falling risk in older women.

OBJECTIVE: to determine the effect of dance-based aerobic exercise on indices of falling in older women. DESIGN: an exercise intervention trial with participants assigned either to an exercise group or to a control group. SETTING: an exercise hall at a community centre for senior citizens. PARTICIPANTS: thirty-eight healthy women aged 72-87 years, living independently in the community. INTERVENTION: twenty women performed dance-based aerobic exercise for 60 minutes, 3 days a week, for 12 weeks. The exercise included single-leg standing, squatting, marching, and heel touching; and targeted balance, strength, locomotion/agility, and motor processing. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: single-leg balance with eyes open/closed and functional reach as balance, hand-grip strength and keeping a half-squat position as strength, walking time around two cones and 3-minute walking distance as locomotion/agility, and hand-reaction time and foot tapping as motor processing. RESULTS: at the pre-test, both exercise and control groups performed similarly in all tests. At the end of the intervention, the exercise group showed significantly greater single-leg balance with eyes closed, functional reach, and walking time around two cones. In contrast, there were no significant improvements in any of the test measures in the control group. CONCLUSIONS: dance-based aerobic exercise specifically designed for older women may improve selected components of balance and locomotion/agility, thereby attenuating risks of falling.

Accidental Falls↗
PubMed2004

Pediatric physical therapists' consultation with a community dance instructor: a case report.

PURPOSE: This case report contributes to defining the role of pediatric physical therapists in promoting recreation for pediatric clients by describing the consultation methods employed by three pediatric physical therapists in a consultative partnership with a community dance instructor of children with disabilities. METHODS: Consultants provided written and verbal recommendations intended to address the dance instructor's identified needs, enhance instructor technique, and improve quality of child participation. Instructor interviews, written surveys, observation of classes, and a consultation logbook were used to assess consultation services. RESULTS: Fifty-four percent of the total 24 consultation recommendations provided to the instructor were implemented at least once. Implementation of recommendations resulted in enhanced class structure and improved child participation, and the dance instructor reported high satisfaction with consultation services. CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric physical therapists have a range of valuable expertise to offer community recreation and leisure activity (RLA) providers, including expertise in physical, social, behavioral, system-level, and other parameters related to RLA participation.

Journal Article↗
PubMed2004

Sexual selection in the gift-giving dance fly, Rhamphomyia sulcata, favors small males carrying small gifts.

In some species of insects males transfer a gift to females during courtship or copulation. In the dance flies these nuptial gifts vary from nutritious prey items to inedible tokens such as a leaf, stone, or silk balloon. Nuptial gifts in dance flies are presumed to increase male mating success. We examined the strength and form of sexual selection on male Rhamphomyia sulcata, an empidid in which males provide females with a nutritious prey item as a nuptial gift. We found that whereas large males carried large gifts, neither large males nor gifts were targets of sexual selection. Indeed, correlational selection analysis and nonparametric examination of the fitness surfaces revealed that small males carrying small gifts were the most successful. Males may be more maneuverable or flight efficient with small gifts, or small males with large gifts may be unable to carry both a large gift and a female in the paired descent flight. These results suggest carrying constraints may be an important factor in determining selection on nuptial gift size. The largest target of sexual selection was old males. Old males were also paired with the largest and most fecund females, highlighting the role mate quality can further contribute to selection on males. Correlational selection analysis also revealed selection for an increase in covariance between male wing length and body size, and for an increase in slope between these traits. Males who deviate away from the optimal phenotypic relationship for two tightly related morphological traits, such as tibia and wing length, may have overall reduced performance. These findings highlight the role correlational sexual selection can play in optimizing nonsexual male morphology and scaling relationships. This study questions the role of the nuptial gift in dance flies as a resource for females.

Age Factors↗
PubMed2001

Projective identification in common couple dances.

This paper integrates the object relations concept of projective identification and the systemic concept of marital dances to develop a more powerful model for working with more difficult and distressed couples. This integrated model explains how some couples use the defenses of splitting and projective identification to externalize and transpose internal conflicts into interpersonal conflicts in five common marital dances. The author suggests how object relations techniques can be used to interrupt the projective identifications, help clients to reown their disowned and projected affects and resolve the conflict on the intrapsychic level so that the marital dance is no longer necessary to resolve the intrapsychic issues.

Conflict, Psychological↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Dances of death, occupational mortality statistics, and social critique.

In the late middle ages and early renaissance dances of death were a popular art form. Despite important differences in outlook, the moral messages of these art forms and of modern analyses of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality overlap considerably. This theme has survived in modern dances of death, which are popular in certain parts of Europe, especially in Germany and other German speaking countries in central Europe, and are clearly inspired by the late medieval and early renaissance examples. In the modern dances of death, however, unlike their historical counterparts, social critique (criticism of social inequality) is almost absent, although they include representations of differences between people in social position. Remarkably, references to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, which have been documented extensively, are also uncommon in the modern examples. This raises important questions about public perception of social inequality in general and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in particular, and it suggests that modern Western society has not developed the cultural means of conveying the moral message that follows from research into socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Culture↗
PubMed2000

Behaviour-locked signal analysis reveals weak 200-300 Hz comb vibrations during the honeybee waggle dance.

Waggle-dancing honeybees produce vibratory movements that may facilitate communication by indicating the location of the waggle dancer. However, an important component of these vibrations has never been previously detected in the comb. We developed a method of fine-scale behavioural analysis that allowed us to analyze separately comb vibrations near a honeybee waggle dancer during the waggle and return phases of her dance. We simultaneously recorded honeybee waggle dances using digital video and laser-Doppler vibrometry, and performed a behaviour-locked Fast Fourier Transform analysis on the substratum vibrations. This analysis revealed significantly higher-amplitude 200-300 Hz vibrations during the waggle phase than during the return phase (P=0.012). We found no significant differences in the flanking frequency regions between 100-200 Hz (P=0.227) and 300-400 Hz (P=0.065). We recorded peak waggle phase vibrations from 206 to 292 Hz (244+/-28 Hz; mean +/- s. d., N=11). The maximum measured signal - noise level was +12.4 dB during the waggle phase (mean +5.8+/-2.7 dB). The maximum vibrational velocity, calculated from a filtered signal, was 128 microm s(-)(1) peak-to-peak, corresponding to a displacement of 0.09 microm peak-to-peak at 223 Hz. On average, we measured a vibrational velocity of 79+/-28 microm s(-)(1) peak-to-peak from filtered signals. These signal amplitudes overlap with the detection threshold of the honeybee subgenual organ.

Animal Communication↗
PubMed1999

[The dance of death theme. On the cultural erosion of the figure of imagination].

The Dance of Death theme was the most developed figure of imagination of the late Middle Ages. Its sources were not only rich but also mysterious: oriental influence, pagan customs, Christian religion, and the habits of medieval everyday life. The imagery tendency of religious themes and the invention of wood engraving established the Dance of Death theme as a popular form of death imagery. The modern erosion of the Dance of Death theme has two reasons: 1) dying, death and corpses no longer constitute a sensual experience; 2) medical context of death disintegrated the former sacrum which has established ideological horizons of death imagery.

Death↗
PubMed2000

Feasibility of an eight-week dance-based exercise program and its effects on locomotor ability of persons with functional class III rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVES: The main objectives of this experimental case series were to evaluate the feasibility of a modified dance-based exercise program with low ground impacts in persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) functional class III and to describe its effects on locomotor ability. The relationship between 3 locomotor tests and their responsiveness also were addressed. METHODS: Ten female subjects participated in an 8-week exercise program. Locomotor ability was measured before and after the program using the 50-foot test of walking time, the 6-minute test of walking distance, and the locomotion biomechanical analysis. RESULTS: All subjects showed a high compliance (92.5% presence at sessions) over the 8 weeks of exercise without any aggravation in disease status. They were able to train efficiently at moderate intensity up to 25 minutes. Significant improvements were found in locomotor ability, with a higher responsiveness measured by the locomotion biomechanical analysis, followed by the 6-minute gait test and the 50-foot gait test. Inconsistent relationships between tests suggested that different locomotor abilities are required during tests. CONCLUSION: These results support the feasibility of a modified dance-based exercise program for persons with severe RA. With high levels of responsiveness, the detailed biomechanical analysis and the 6-minute gait test are recommended for the assessment of locomotor ability.

Aged↗
PubMed2006

Dancing for bone health: a 3-year longitudinal study of bone mineral accrual across puberty in female non-elite dancers and controls.

INTRODUCTION: Weight-bearing exercise during growth enhances peak bone mass. However, the window of opportunity for optimizing positive effects of exercise on peak bone mass remains to be fully defined. Ballet dancing provides a model of mechanical loading patterns required to site-specifically modulate bone. METHODS: We assessed the effects of ballet dancing on bone mineral accrual in female non-elite dancers and normally active controls for 3 years across puberty. We recruited 82 ballet dancers and 61 controls age 8-11 years at baseline. Participants were measured over 3 consecutive years; however, the overlap in ages allowed analysis of the groups across 8-14 years of age. We annually assessed bone mineral content (BMC) at the total body (TB), including upper and lower limb regions, and biannually assessed BMC at the proximal femur and lumbar spine (LS) using dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). We derived TB lean mass and fat mass from DXA TB scans. Anthropometry, exercise levels, and calcium intake were also measured biannually. Maturational age was determined by age at peak height velocity (PHV). A multilevel regression model was used to determine the independent effects of body size, body composition, maturation, exercise levels, and calcium intake at each measurement occasion. RESULTS: When adjusted for growth and maturation, dancers had significantly greater BMC at the TB, lower limbs, femoral neck (FN), and LS than controls. Excepting the FN region, these differences became apparent at 1 year post-PHV, or the peripubertal years, and by 2 years post-PHV the differences represented a cumulative advantage in dancers of 0.6-1.3% (p<0.05) greater BMC than controls. At the FN, dancers had 4% (p<0.05) greater BMC than controls in prepuberty and maintained this advantage throughout the pubertal years. CONCLUSIONS: Results from this novel population provide evidence for modest site-specific and maturity-specific effects of mechanical loading on bone.

Adolescent↗