Akademie für Tanzpädagogik & Tanzmedizin, Österreich

The academy trains teachers who are first and foremost interested in the welfare of their students, prevention of injuries, and the preservation of the individual physical and mental health of (young) dancers in education!

Our goal is the fusion of dance pedagogy, dance medicine and science.

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Professional dancers can benefit greatly from own content knowledge on dance medicine & science. Such knowledge is power when it comes to questions such as

💪🏻How can I enhance my own performance?
💪🏼How can I contribute myself to preventing or healing my injuries?
💪🏽How can I plan my own training when nobody else is available?
💪🏾How can I prepare for the beginning of classes/rehearsals after vacation?
💪🏿What do I have to know about dance medicine & science that I can meet my own needs in my own dance style and profession?

Our Me&MyBest certificate starts into a new round Mid-February. It provides additional knowledge in dance medicine for professinal dancers in a 11-month course.

Further details are to be found on our homepage.
Apply at [email protected]

Time and intensity, the choice of exercises and the order of warm up depend on many extrinsic and intrinsic factors like temperature, space, clothes, age, s*x, wellbeing, motivation, concentration,...

What is the most crucial factor that affects the way you warm up?

It is not enough to know about the structure of muscles, their functionality, injuries, and pathologies. Science of training for dancers is much more: how to plan training to make use of dancer's optimal muscle functionality, balance stabilization and stability with flexibility and alignment, and how special topics such as spiraldynsmics® or motor imagery can help to achieve that.

What do you have in mind when it comes to muscles and dance?

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The curriculum of the "Preventive Dance Medical Dance Pedagogy©" includes in theory and practice

🔹basic principles of pedagogical studies, dance science and research
🔹applied dance medicine, anatomy, physiology, patho-physiology, kinesiology in relevance for dance teachers
🔹practical and theoretical principles of dance medicine and safe dance practice
🔹dietetics, neuro science, psychology, first aid, dance history in relevance for teachers
🔹developping teacher's skills
🔹management: administration and organisation of stage production, curriculum and training programmes / schedules
🔹summer-intensive-school for teachers
🔹applied literature, art history, and
🔹applied and historical musicology for dance teachers
🔹legal rights for dance instructors
.... and many more

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Recognition and respect of individual physical and psychological needs of the dancers and the implementation of science based teaching form the basis for high-quality training.

We developed a program specifically for dance teachers. The Us&OurBest seminars provide dance educators with knowledge on relevant dance medical topics and give them tools to implement science into training to enhance training.

Stay tuned to get to know the dates of the next round of this program!

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Are you asking yourself right now, how to continue learning, improving, and develop in teaching, dancing or treating dancers?
Here are some programs for you!

Check out the homepage www.tanzpaedagogik.eu for more details!

Aside from the 4-year diploma for dance teachers there is a whole series "onTour" which consist out of:

> Me&MyBest - Dance Medicine for Professional Dancers
> Us&OurBest - Preventive Dance Medical Dance Pedagogy© for Dance Teachers
> You&YourBest - Interprofessional Dance Medicine for Physios

Find out more about our courses for dancers, dance teachers, and anyone related to the dance field.
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Thank you, F***y, for your kind words!

What we do...The academy trains teachers who are first and foremost interested in the welfare of their students, prevention of injuries, and the preservation of the individual physical and mental health of (young) dancers in education!

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The synergy between dance pedagogy and dance medicine enables teachers, ballet masters, or choreographers to guide their dancers towards healthy, safe dance technique, approaches to training and performance. The teacher learns how to create a healthy body and a healthy mind in their dancers by practically applying dance medicine and dance science. Evidence-based approaches to education, training and performance through empowering motivational climates as well as training sciences results in killing two birds with one stone: The dancer's performance can reach their individual best while their injuries are being prevented.

We offer a diploma in Preventive dance medical dance pedagogy for teachers, pedagogues, ballet masters, coaches.

-> duration of study: 3 years + 1 year for diploma paper and exam)
-> extra occupational possible

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What is actually happening in our brain when we are watching other people dance?

It's reading time 📚
"Movement synchrony among dance performers predicts brain synchrony among dance spectators"
By Guido Orgs et al. Sci Rep. 2024

Abstract
Performing dance is an intrinsically social art form where at least one person moves while another person watches. Dancing in groups promotes social bonding, but how does group dance affect the people watching? A group of dancers and dance novices watched a 30 min dance video individually in an fMRI scanner. In a follow-up behavioural study, the same people watched the video again and provided continuous enjoyment ratings. Firstly, we computed cross-recurrence of continuous enjoyment ratings and inter-subject correlations (ISCs) in fMRI separately for both groups, and with the choreographer of the dance work. At both behavioural and neural levels, dancers responded more similarly to each other than novices. ISCs among dancers extended beyond brain areas involved in audio-visual integration and sensory areas of human movement perception into motor areas, suggesting greater sensorimotor familiarity with the observed dance movements in the expert group. Secondly, we show that dancers' brain activations and continuous ratings are more similar to the choreographer's ratings in keeping with sharing an aesthetic and artistic perspective when viewing the dance. Thirdly, we show that movement synchrony among performers is the best predictor of brain synchrony among both expert and novice spectators. This is consistent with the idea that changes in emergent movement synchrony are a key aesthetic feature of performing dance. Finally, ISCs across perceptual and motor brain areas were primarily driven by movement acceleration and synchrony, whereas ISCs in orbital and pre-frontal brain areas were overall weaker and better explained by the continuous enjoyment ratings of each group.

Read on...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39333777/

The course Us&OurBest Basics in preventive dance medical Dance Pedagogy© (pdmDP©) as part of the AcademyOnTour Series is able to push perceived boundaries of teachers(-to-be) of all dance styles and everybody working with dancers (i.a. ballet masters, choreographers, coaches). It introduces new ways of teaching, empowers teachers and thus opens new doors for their dancers.

You learn about...
How can a teacher guide amateur and professional (trainee) dancers to their individual peak performance while actively, uninterruptedly and without additional effort preventing their injuries?

How should training be prepared so that amateur dancers or future professional dancers can become mentally, emotionally, and physically fit for their individual requirements?

What competencies (dance technical, preventive-dance medical, social, psychological, cognitive) does a dance teacher need to feel up to her/his job without worry?

How can dance technique of all styles be taught in such a way that the most important performanceenhancing and injury-preventing aspects can be considered?

Further information you can find on our website:
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