The Porous Body: Cultivating Malleability in Dance Training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Laberge-Côté
Keyword(s):  
Porous Body ◽  
Dance Training

edged: Exploring the porous boundaries between teaching philosophy, dance performance and choreographic practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Laberge-Côté
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Porous Body ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Over the past four years I have developed The Porous Body, a teaching philosophy that promotes the practice of heightened physical and mental malleability in dance training by following four fundamental guiding principles: flow, playfulness, metaphor and paradox. As my process deepened, I wondered: what would happen if I applied The Porous Body to my choreographic practice? How might this framework prove fruitful during a creative process? What kind of choreographic work would emerge from this experiment? This article is an artist’s reflection on an artistic experiment; it describes the first choreographic process to which I applied The Porous Body’s guiding principles, and which led to the creation and performance of edged, a solo work exploring the porous edges between inner/outer, planned/unplanned, control/surrender, pleasure/struggle and terror/courage.

scholarly journals Validity of Inertial Sensors for Assessing Balance Kinematics and Mobility during Treadmill-Based Perturbation and Dance Training

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 3065
Author(s):  
Ernest Kwesi Ofori ◽  
Shuaijie Wang ◽  
Tanvi Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Inertial Sensors ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Intraclass Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Silver Standard ◽  
Mean Square Errors ◽  
Reactive Balance

Inertial sensors (IS) enable the kinematic analysis of human motion with fewer logistical limitations than the silver standard optoelectronic motion capture (MOCAP) system. However, there are no data on the validity of IS for perturbation training and during the performance of dance. The aim of this present study was to determine the concurrent validity of IS in the analysis of kinematic data during slip and trip-like perturbations and during the performance of dance. Seven IS and the MOCAP system were simultaneously used to capture the reactive response and dance movements of fifteen healthy young participants (Age: 18–35 years). Bland Altman (BA) plots, root mean square errors (RMSE), Pearson’s correlation coefficients (R), and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were used to compare kinematic variables of interest between the two systems for absolute equivalency and accuracy. Limits of agreements (LOA) of the BA plots ranged from −0.23 to 0.56 and −0.21 to 0.43 for slip and trip stability variables, respectively. The RMSE for slip and trip stabilities were from 0.11 to 0.20 and 0.11 to 0.16, respectively. For the joint mobility in dance, LOA varied from −6.98–18.54, while RMSE ranged from 1.90 to 13.06. Comparison of IS and optoelectronic MOCAP system for reactive balance and body segmental kinematics revealed that R varied from 0.59 to 0.81 and from 0.47 to 0.85 while ICC was from 0.50 to 0.72 and 0.45 to 0.84 respectively for slip–trip perturbations and dance. Results of moderate to high concurrent validity of IS and MOCAP systems. These results were consistent with results from similar studies. This suggests that IS are valid tools to quantitatively analyze reactive balance and mobility kinematics during slip–trip perturbation and the performance of dance at any location outside, including the laboratory, clinical and home settings.

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