Current News
These are a few of the current articles regarding ballroom dance and various disciplines.
New Articles
| Title: | "Does partnered dance promote health? The case of tango Argentino" |
| Author: | Gunter Kreutz |
| Journal: | The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 128, No. 2, 79-84 (2008) DOI: 10.1177/1466424007087805 |
| Organization/Contributors: | Royal Northern College of Music |
| Abstract: | "Cultural activities, including music, singing and dance, have often been conceptualised as enhancing well-being as well as promoting mental and physical health. This paper focuses on partnered dance in the context of 'cultures of fitness'. Its purpose was to investigate the dancers of tango Argentino, and to explore potential health benefits in this group." (Taken from website) |
| Website: | http://rsh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/128/2/79 |
| Title: | "Stress on the Dance Floor: The Cortisol Stress Response to Social-Evaluative Threat in Competitive Ballroom Dancers" |
| Author: | Nicolas Rohleder, et al. |
| Journal: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 1, 69-84 (2007) DOI: 10.1177/0146167206293986 |
| Organization/Contributors: | Dresden University of Technology and University of British Columbia - Nicholas Rohleder University of Wuppertal - Silke E. Beulen University of British Columbia - Edith Chen Dresden University of Technology and University of British Columbia - Jutta M. Wolf Dresden University of Technology - Clemens Kirschbaum |
| Abstract: | "The social self-preservation theory states that humans have a fundamental motivation to preserve the social self and that threats to the social self perturb biological markers such as cortisol. Five studies were designed to examine the cortisol response to competitive ballroom dancing as a paradigm for real-life social-evaluative threat. Competitive dancing produced substantial increases in cortisol compared to a control day. These increases were not due to the physical strain of dancing and were greater than those found during social-evaluative laboratory stressors. Responses did not habituate across competitions and were mostly elevated under highly focused conditions of threat (couple vs. group competition). These findings support the notion of a social self-preservation system that is physiologically responsive to threats to the social self." (Taken from website) |
| Website: | http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/69 |
| Title: | "Tango or Waltz?: Putting Ballroom Dance Style into Tempo Detection" |
| Author: | Björn Schuller, Florian Eyben, and Gerhard Rigoll |
| Journal: | EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 846135, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2008/846135 |
| Organization/Contributors: | Institute for Human-Machine Communication |
| Abstract: | "Rhythmic information plays an important role in Music Information Retrieval. Example applications include automatically annotating large databases by genre, meter, ballroom dance style or tempo, fully automated D.J.-ing, and audio segmentation for further retrieval tasks such as automatic chord labeling. In this article, we therefore provide an introductory overview over basic and current principles of tempo detection. Subsequently, we show how to improve on these by inclusion of ballroom dance style recognition. We introduce a feature set of 82 rhythmic features for rhythm analysis on real audio. With this set, data-driven identification of the meter and ballroom dance style, employing support vector machines, is carried out in a first step. Next, this information is used to more robustly detect tempo. We evaluate the suggested method on a large public database containing 1.8 k titles of standard and Latin ballroom dance music. Following extensive test runs, a clear boost in performance can be reported." (Taken from website) |
| Website: | http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/2008/846135.html |
