Showing posts with label "Tango in Academia"; "Tango Research". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Tango in Academia"; "Tango Research". Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Survey -- Gender biases and effect of gender roles in the social scene of Argentine tango
Posting for Marcello, please take the time to complete his survey...
Dear tango dancers,
My name is Marcello Pignataro. I am a post-doc at Colorado State University and a tango dancer myself. As a final project for a class that I am taking (Psychology of Women, Men and Gender) I have developed a survey (link below) to study gender biases in tango communities.
There are no rewards, but I would be grateful if you would spend some of your precious time to take it and answer as thoroughly as you can. Unfortunately the survey is available only in English, but it would still be great if you would share with other fellow tango dancers the link to the survey or to this page.
The survey is anonymous and it will be available till the end of February, after which I will analyze the results (hopefully someone will have answered) to be able to write a document that will summarize the findings. This document will be made available as soon as it is ready (which will probably still means around May/June) on Facebook and to any participant that will ask for it while taking the survey.
Thanks for your attention and your time,
Marcello
LINK TO THE SURVEY: https://s.surveyplanet.com/W2It3TOR
Saturday, June 21, 2008
This is your brain on dance
My friend Malevito at Virtualapiz found this article in Scientific Americanon the neuroscience of dance.
Thank your precuneus. It's "a parietal lobe region very close to where the kinesthetic representation of the legs resides". I find it particularly interesting that the researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio specifically chose Argentine Tango dancers. Not Texas two-steppers, not swingers or lindy hoppers, not polka-ations, but Argentine Tango. Our little sleeper of a dance sure does get a lot of attention doesn't it? (Although, to be fair, they also worked with ballet dancers and capoeira dancers, as well as non-dancers.)
Next we will find that Islamic fundamentalist extremism in the Middle East has been quelched all because of Argentine Tango (with a little Monica Bellucci wearing nothing but lingerie mixed in). Courtesy of this imagery which seems to be making the rounds in Syria, Dubai, and Iran.
When you read the article, note that the researchers chose the much maligned "basic eight" for the wired/hooked up dancers to repeat while the data were collected.
What I also find interesting, sitting here thinking about it now, as we all know, it is extremely important to not think about tango, or the dance, or the steps, or the weight transfers, or the this and the that, for tango to "feel" right. I wonder if the researchers considered this - that their readings could be different for an inexperienced tango dancer thinking about the basic eight as he/she executes it, versus a milonguero who has been dancing for 40 years.
I wonder.
Thank your precuneus. It's "a parietal lobe region very close to where the kinesthetic representation of the legs resides". I find it particularly interesting that the researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio specifically chose Argentine Tango dancers. Not Texas two-steppers, not swingers or lindy hoppers, not polka-ations, but Argentine Tango. Our little sleeper of a dance sure does get a lot of attention doesn't it? (Although, to be fair, they also worked with ballet dancers and capoeira dancers, as well as non-dancers.)
Next we will find that Islamic fundamentalist extremism in the Middle East has been quelched all because of Argentine Tango (with a little Monica Bellucci wearing nothing but lingerie mixed in). Courtesy of this imagery which seems to be making the rounds in Syria, Dubai, and Iran.
When you read the article, note that the researchers chose the much maligned "basic eight" for the wired/hooked up dancers to repeat while the data were collected.
What I also find interesting, sitting here thinking about it now, as we all know, it is extremely important to not think about tango, or the dance, or the steps, or the weight transfers, or the this and the that, for tango to "feel" right. I wonder if the researchers considered this - that their readings could be different for an inexperienced tango dancer thinking about the basic eight as he/she executes it, versus a milonguero who has been dancing for 40 years.
I wonder.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tango as Therapy :: First International Congress of Tango Therapy
From Janis Kenyon through Nina Pesochinsky on Tango-L...
Message: 9
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:00:33 -0600
From: Nina Pesochinsky
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] [Tango-A] SA: Tango Therapy Congress
To: "Tango-A"
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20080401165327.01ad85a8@earthnet.net>
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This is really cute! Not that tango is not therapy...
Watching people dance and learn over the last 13 years, I would propose with some certainly that everyone gets therapized, one way or another, whether they want to or not :). And things do get worse before they get better, just as they sometimes do with more traditional forms of therapy. Neuroticism must be a side effect of the treatment.
I assume they do not follow the principles of evidence-based practice... I wonder how they measure the outcomes....
At 04:38 PM 4/1/2008, Janis Kenyon wrote:
>The first international congress of Tango Therapy will be held July
>17-19, 2008, in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Those of you who are
>health professionals may want to attend (and combine it time in the
>milongas). One speaker is from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
http://www.congresotangoterapia.com/
Message: 9
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:00:33 -0600
From: Nina Pesochinsky
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] [Tango-A] SA: Tango Therapy Congress
To: "Tango-A"
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20080401165327.01ad85a8@earthnet.net>
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This is really cute! Not that tango is not therapy...
Watching people dance and learn over the last 13 years, I would propose with some certainly that everyone gets therapized, one way or another, whether they want to or not :). And things do get worse before they get better, just as they sometimes do with more traditional forms of therapy. Neuroticism must be a side effect of the treatment.
I assume they do not follow the principles of evidence-based practice... I wonder how they measure the outcomes....
At 04:38 PM 4/1/2008, Janis Kenyon wrote:
>The first international congress of Tango Therapy will be held July
>17-19, 2008, in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Those of you who are
>health professionals may want to attend (and combine it time in the
>milongas). One speaker is from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
http://www.congresotangoterapia.com/
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Your brain on dance...
From Mash on Tango-L...
DANCE AND THE BRAIN
http://www.dana.org/news/publications/detail.aspx?id=10744
"A critical outcome of our research is that learning by observing leads to action resonance and prediction that is the same as occurs with physical learning. This strong link between learning by doing and learning by observing at the neural level might benefit from early exposure to dance, where the consistencies between training methods could be acquired."
THE DANCING BRAIN
http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2930
"How can watching one dance performance, whether classical ballet or the newest modern choreography, be so engaging - even thrilling - and then watching another performance leave us so indifferent? Dutch choreographer and researcher Ivar Hagendoorn argues that contemporary neuroscience points at the answer. The limbs move, but it is the brain that dances."
--
'Mash
London,UK
DANCE AND THE BRAIN
http://www.dana.org/news/publications/detail.aspx?id=10744
"A critical outcome of our research is that learning by observing leads to action resonance and prediction that is the same as occurs with physical learning. This strong link between learning by doing and learning by observing at the neural level might benefit from early exposure to dance, where the consistencies between training methods could be acquired."
THE DANCING BRAIN
http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2930
"How can watching one dance performance, whether classical ballet or the newest modern choreography, be so engaging - even thrilling - and then watching another performance leave us so indifferent? Dutch choreographer and researcher Ivar Hagendoorn argues that contemporary neuroscience points at the answer. The limbs move, but it is the brain that dances."
--
'Mash
London,UK
Friday, March 7, 2008
New Blog :: Tango Actual :: Tango Research :: Tango Music
Tango Actual is a blog I ran across....Morgan Luker of NYC...writing a book...and doing the commensurate research ... on contemporary tango music...
http://tangoactual.blogspot.com/
And check out this post...
http://tangoactual.blogspot.com/2007/03/orquesta-escuela-de-tango-at-ix-buenos.html
http://tangoactual.blogspot.com/
And check out this post...
http://tangoactual.blogspot.com/2007/03/orquesta-escuela-de-tango-at-ix-buenos.html
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Tango :: Academic Research
From the blog..."A girl & the tango"...
Individualistic networks and networking individuals in Tango Argentino
Céline Kuttler and Ralf Blossey
Interdisciplinary Research Institute, c/o IEMN, Cité Scientifique - Avenue Poincaré BP 69, F-59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0308/0308455.pdf
Sensuous and Gendered Embraces: An Investigation into Tango Dance Practices
Mia Helmer Jensen
14th of December 2006
Dance Anthropology
MA Dissertation: DAN060L760Y
http://www.i-m-pulse.eclipse.co.uk/MA%20Thesis%20(2).htm
Individualistic networks and networking individuals in Tango Argentino
Céline Kuttler and Ralf Blossey
Interdisciplinary Research Institute, c/o IEMN, Cité Scientifique - Avenue Poincaré BP 69, F-59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0308/0308455.pdf
Sensuous and Gendered Embraces: An Investigation into Tango Dance Practices
Mia Helmer Jensen
14th of December 2006
Dance Anthropology
MA Dissertation: DAN060L760Y
http://www.i-m-pulse.eclipse.co.uk/MA%20Thesis%20(2).htm
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