Dance and flexibility: limits and enhancement of joint mobility
What does it mean to be flexible? A person endowed with flexibility has the ability to freely move a set of joints throughout their range...
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- Jul 28, 2020
- 3 min
Michail Baryšnikov, unforgettable dancer of the twentieth century
Michail Nikolaevič Baryšnikov, nicknamed "Misha", is one of the greatest and most unforgettable dancers of the twentieth century. In...
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- Jan 26, 2020
- 4 min
When your child asks who created dance...
Dance is the mother of the arts and is as old as the world as it has accompanied men and the events of their lives from the beginning,...
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- Jan 25, 2020
- 4 min
The birth of "pointe shoes"
The "spikes" are generally considered one of the most significant expressions of romantic ballet for that image hovering between reality...
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- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min
The benefits of dance for children
The benefits of dance have long been demonstrated by science: it relaxes, increases creativity and even helps to overcome states such as...
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- Jan 23, 2020
- 3 min
The origins of the pirouette
In a surge of admiration and respect for the Paris Opera, Carlo Blasis (1795-1878) attributes the invention of the pirouette to the two...
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- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
"The origin of the second and fourth arabesques"
The publications on the archaeological finds of Herculaneum and Pompeii, produced from the fifties of the eighteenth century, had...
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- Dec 30, 2019
- 2 min
Dancing is very good for health at any age. Science says it
Dancing keeps our brains young because it is an activity in constant motion and full of changes. While we dance our mind is always busy,...
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- Dec 26, 2019
- 7 min
Chronic low back pain in young dancers: why do many suffer from "back pain"?
Lumbago, or pain referred to the lumbar part of the spine, is one of the most common problems among dancers of all ages: in some studies...
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- Dec 24, 2019
- 1 min
Dancing helps keep our brains in shape
"Mens sana in corpore sano", the ancients said. Yes, especially if the body in question is kept in shape to the rhythm of the music. To...
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- Dec 19, 2019
- 6 min
Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis: when a lumbar vertebra "slips"
Today instead we will talk about a particular form of back pain that affects a smaller number of dancers but that must be monitored with...
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- Dec 19, 2019
- 8 min
Rudolf Nureyev many lives and one dance
Rudolf Nureyev, was not only the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, but also the creator of a profound transformation of classical...
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- Dec 16, 2019
- 5 min
The anatomical and physiological bases of en dehors
The term en dehors, which literally means "outside", means the movement of external rotation of the hip capable of modifying the...
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- Dec 12, 2019
- 4 min
What Christmas would it be without the magic of The Nutcracker?
What Christmas would it be without the magic of The Nutcracker?
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- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
5 reasons why dancing is good
Running, doing yoga and dancing is good. We often say this to ourselves and we promise to join the gym, go for a run, go to the...
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- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min
All the benefits of dance in old age!
All the benefits of dance in old age! In recent years, many studies have tested the benefits of dancing on the elderly, both physically...
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- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min
Classical dance for adults, helps tone the body and regain mobility
Classical dance for adults is a complete sport that can help us tone the body and regain the mobility and flexibility of the muscles....
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- Oct 12, 2018
- 5 min
Ankle sprain: the most frequent acute trauma among dancers
What can members do? The orthopedic pathologies that afflict the dancers are mainly chronic in nature or from functional overload: they...
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