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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ECD
- 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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ECD
- 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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ECD
- 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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ECD
- Dec 19, 2019
- 8 min