When dance and science meet: Karine Rathle at TEDxLSE 2013

Karine Rathle is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and dance scientist with experience in ballet, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Pilates, Somatics, Argentinean tango and folkloric dance. She has extensive experience working as a teacher and rehearsal director with dancers in Canada, Argentina and the UK. After the completion of an MSc Dance Science at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, she also works as a researcher applying science to help enhance dancers' performance health and well-being. Karine's creative work is fueled by an interest in developping a multidisciplinary, personal and authentic language. Extending beyond the perceived limits of the physical, Karine's voyage of discovery aspires to integrate the movement, the image and the theatrical aspect in both her creation, and her performance of dance.
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[@glenbartholomew1058]

Wonderful presentation and topic.
My first introduction to dance was after running with some other athletes, we would end at the Exercise Physiology Lab and I would help one the other runner, by operating the treadmill to find the V.O2max of dancers for his thesis, yes he did use running. 8 ) I was so amazed by this study and the the efforts (their presence actually) the dancers put into everything, I switched my major to Exercise Phys.
But it took several years later, to finally figure out when and where dance concerts were held on campus, to see a concert. I was so enthralled I started taking classes.
A side note, in the study, we did a sit and reach test with the dancers, but they had to tape a ruler on to the measuring instrument, because the dancers kept going off the scale. 8 )

[@d3binx]

Amazing