Student Committee Conference Events and Introductions

With the IADMS Student Committee around the corner we would like to put a face to our Student Committee names, feel free to hello at the conference!

We would love to introduce ourselves to you in person, feel free to visit our presentations, or at registration.

5 Conference Networking Tips

Conferences—deceivingly pragmatic and academic in form—are nothing short of a whirlwind of emotions. For introverts, extroverts, and professed extroverted-introverts alike, conferences can be exhausting. Conceivably this is because conferences are often set up like the Fast and Furious version of a term in university, where it’s a mad dash to see how many notes you can scribble on a program booklet in a little over 72 hours. Yet perhaps this is because, at any one time, you are surrounded by people. A lot of people. But not just any people, magical people. These people are the people who are interested in the exact same things as you. So how are you going to talk to them?

IADMS 2017 DUEL: Should dancers run?

This year's Annual Conference will host a few IADMS DUELS!

Here, we will introduce you to the two duelists debating SHOULD DANCERS RUN?

IADMS 2017: Speaker Jatin Ambegaonkar

Introducing Jatin Ambegaonkar - a featured speaker at this year's Annual Conference and the Chair of the IADMS Research Committee. Check out an interview with Jatin here.

Physiological perspectives on puberty in dance

Author: Siobhan Mitchell on behalf of the IADMS Dance Educators’ Committee 

In our last blog post, Siobhan focused on the psychological perspectives on puberty in dance training and here follows our second post in the series, this time focusing on the physiological perspectives on puberty in dance. These posts follow on from our busy season of Regional Meetings in Australia, USA and UK where the focus of much of our discussions at these events was on how we work with children and young people to optimize their training. Siobhan presented her session at the Healthier Dancer Day on The Adolescent Dancer in Ipswich in May 2017.

5 Questions With Kali Taft

This month's featured member is Kali Taft, a student at Texas A&M University. Kali is studying Kinesiology: Dance Science.  Her areas of interest include dance science, choreography and performance.