Name: 【TEDx】When dance and science meet: Karine Rathle at TEDxLSE 2013
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No, I thought so. So, before introducing my research project,

I sort of decided that it might be a good idea

to give you a little introduction of what is dance science.

First you see these two dancers, one of them has a big mask on its face.

She's performing for the purpose of scientific research

So, what is dance science? It's a field of research

that takes everything from exercise and sport science

and tries to see if that can apply to dancers.

It's very recent, so, basically all the research coming out at Master's level

We don't have a choice, there's not much done,

so whatever we do we have to figure out a way

It is a multi-disciplinary field, it is impossible to do everything,

and not involve every single field that is involved in the human body.

So, we look at neuroscience, anatomy, physiology, psychology, somatics,

so dance, anything that has to do with arts and the body.

First of all, dancers get injured all the time.

Dancers get injured more than football players,

90% of dancers will get injured within one year's time.

So, from now until next year, we'll have 90% of all dancers in the UK

why are they getting injured, and how can we make them better.

And how can we, not just prevent injury, but as well

No. It's also about: How can dance help everybody else?

So, I just did a workshop on: How can dance help

in understanding our social perception of the world?

People saw that communication can come out of just plain movement,

and how our bodies interact with one another without any words.

Really interesting how dance can change our perception of thinking,

so it can involve sociology, it can involve anthropology,

So then for health, there is a lot of research that's been done

and dance and how can tango help with Alzheimer patients.

showing that, actually, if they learn to dance tango,

they're making decision, they're using that part of the brain

And we can make sure that Alzheimer doesn't fade

So, we found that dance has a lot of benefits for other people,

and all that because dance science existed.

So, it does benefit everybody and everybody, but dancers in general,

So, there's a lot of work still to be done in our field,

So, what we're doing right now in our field

is mainly looking at: How can we screen dancers and make them better?

So, we came up with a lot of different assessments

that help us look at dancers in a different way,

and these are all things that are taken from exercise science.

And then we came up with other things that are more about dancers.

Dancers need to be flexible, they need to be strong,

and they also need a lot of coordination,

so we come up with a lot of different ways

to measure, to see if an intervention works better,

So, normally that fitness test is done while we run.

We like to dance. Running is really not our thing.

So, if you're going to assess our fitness, please do not assess it through running.

and we're like (Pain groan) and we look incredibly foolish.

I don't why, but it's a generalization, but most dancers don't run very well.

behind the actual fitness test, aerobic fitness test,

There's one in contemporary, one in ballet.

So, different genres of dance can have their own test.

So, I've talked already about the kind of research that's coming out.

But also I'd like to talk to you about my research.

What I've talked to you about was a lot of these scientific research

going from pure science. When I started my Master's degree,

That's why I decided to introduce it to you,

because, if me as a dancer, I had no idea what that field was about,

even when I started my degree, I was like...

Oh! Okay, so I'm going to do psychology. Why am I doing psychology again?

I understood everything just by doing the degree

and reading more of the research, which most people don't know about.

But my research ended up being not about the physiology of the dancers,

Because we want to observe a dancer and enjoy?

There's a lot of artistry involved, it's not just about how high the leg is,

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