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Posting on dance, fitness, higher education, and qualitative research. Maybe these things go together; maybe they don't. Brought to you by Art Intercepts / Next Level Training

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Three days in dance month affirm off-Loop concert dance's place in #chidance

Three days in dance month affirm off-loop concert dance's place in #chidance

CHICAGO — We’re in the home stretch of Chicago Dance Month, a celebration of the breadth and depth of dance in the Windy City. For me, that has included a number of illuminating full-legnth works from out-of-towners like Bebe Miller and Okwui Okpokwasili, Hubbard Street and Giordano on the same two nights at our city’s grandest venues, and entertaining educational programming by See Chicago Dance.

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Haute Couture at the Chicago History Museum

Haute Couture at the Chicago History Museum

CHICAGO — On display through August, 2017, the Chicago History Museum’s newest exhibit, Making Mainbocher, is a peek at the life and work of Main Rousseau Bocher, an American fashion designer with significant ties to the Windy City.

Main Bocher grew up on the city’s West Side, attending John Marshall High School and the Lewis Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology). The majority of…

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Illustrations from The Human Body: What It Is And How It Works by Cornelius De Witt

Amazing stuff. De Witt’s papers are available at the University of Oregon. Some info about his life: 

Cornelius Hugh DeWitt (also spelled De Witt) was born in Cassel, Germany on June 6, 1905. He spent his childhood and young adulthood in Europe, where he traveled extensively. Before emigrating to the United States in 1928, he studied bookkeeping, spent one year in the Army, and worked in the advertising profession in Paris to support his study of art at the Ecole de la Grande Chaumière and Alliance Française.

DeWitt created several murals, including four for the New York World’s Fair in 1939. While working for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, he became acquainted with Lucille Ogle, and soon launched a successful children’s book illustration career with Ogle and Golden Books. His illustrations are featured in such publications as the Regions of America series (Harper, ca. 1940-48), The Little Golden ABC (Simon and Schuster, 1951), The Golden Geography (Simon and Schuster, 1952), The Golden History of the World (Simon and Schuster, 1955), and The Human Body (Golden Press, 1959). He illustrated the first edition of The Golden Encyclopedia (written by Dorothy A. Bennett, 1946) and was a contributing artist for the later sixteen-volume Golden Book Encyclopedia (edited by Bertha Morris Parker, 1959).

DeWitt died on February 27, 1995.

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Specificity

The training principle that adaptations induced by training are highly specific to the stress.

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Research Trends: Why Homework Should Be Balanced

Research suggests that while homework can be an effective learning tool, assigning too much can lower student performance and interfere with other important activities.

“The goal shouldn’t be to eliminate homework, but to make it authentic, meaningful, and engaging.”

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Music and musings are just 'Some of a Thousand Words'

Music and musings are just 'Some of a Thousand Words' | One of the last dance reviews, for now, on #artintercepts

A one-nighter last Saturday marked the second of NYC-based Brian Brooks’ Chicago engagements during his tenure as the inaugural choreographer in residence at the Harris Theater, and his second collaboration with retired New York City Ballet super star Wendy Whelan.

Whelan and Brooks each had their own solos to diversify the night’s gaggle of duets, capping the work with a reprise of their…

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F**k Thigh Gaps, Ab Cracks, And Back Dimples

Did you know that getting a thigh gap, a defined ab crack, or the goddess-like back dimples will make you more beautiful, valuable, and happy?

@niashanks nails it. Again.

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...the evaluation of the artistic performance of publicly funded arts organizations is not a purely procedural and technical issue relating to the production of better performance information, but it is above all a substantive and political one relating to the nature of the arts and the function of publicly funded arts organizations in individual communities and in society in general.

Francesco Chiavalloti

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Bronx-based choreographer Justine Grayman’s “Woman Versus” looks at the machines and systems with which women are required to cooperate.

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How Many Turns on the Resistance Knob? - Indoor Cycling Association

Have you ever cued to turn up the resistance by giving a number of turns to your class? You may want to find a better way to cue resistance! Caesar filmed a brief video for his riders who have been used to being told the number of turns expected, so he wanted to show them why it's not an effective cue. We hope this helps you so you can explain to your class why you don't cue that way.

Data geeks love those consoles and odometers, but all you need for an effective workout on the bike is perceived exertion.

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How To Tell If An Indoor Cycling Class Is Any Good - CTS

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn EmailWill a “spin class” at my local gym help me in the winter? This is a perennial question, but it’s also a very good one. Every fitness club has some form of indoor cycling class, and during the dead of winter it’s very tempting to jump in rather than slave away on an...

Question No1: sweatfest or structured workout?

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Scammers "exploit a fundamental weakness of modern higher education: Academics need to publish in order to advance professionally, get better jobs or secure tenure.”

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A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop

Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material

Pro tip for college students: Bring a notebook and pen to class! 

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Conditioning Exercises for Ballet Dancers

When training as a ballet dancer, many hours are spent in the studio working on set exercises or choreography. While ballet training may offer a type of fitness regime, in the December 2005 issue of "Dance Magazine," Linda Hamilton, a former New York city ballet dancer, advises that dancers get out of the studio to try other types of...

It would be really great if authors writing about dance conditioning would stop saying that weightlifting makes dancers “bulky.” This philosophy is antiquated, and wrong. It is recognized by IADMS that strength training reduces the incidence of injury and improves performance. Curious? Ask a trainer how you can lift weights without “getting big.”

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Petits Rats de l'Opéra de Paris, 1979. Photo by Martine Franck.

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Columbia’s Identity Crisis

Can the South Loop fixture stay relevant in the face of plunging enrollment?

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Intro to Exercise Science students created “virtual visuals,” including this fantastic infographic on ACL injuries by Wontaek Kim, Yousef Ihmoud, and Mohammad Ahmad.