tanzmed.2010.at
medical and therapeutic information

July 18, 4 pm Introduction in the frame of impressions 2010
G. v. Skrbensky et al.: Practical implemantation: workshop in medicine for dancers

August 9 - 13, Workshop


Modules & Lecturers

Monday, August 9, 2010

17:30
1st Module 1,5 h
Joints & Elastic Taping, GYROTONIC®
Prof. Dr. Gobert v. Skrbensky
DP Marie Sophie Kiepe
Leslie A. Domittner-Cardona

19:00
2nd Module 1 h
Nutrition in Dance 1 Effects on the everyday life of a dancer
Eva-Maria Kraft, BA

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

17:30
3rd Modul 1 h
„The Viennese Way of pain therapy“
Dr. Reinald Brezovsky

18:30
4th Module 1,5 h
Pilates 1, System Europe
Pilatestraining mit dem Triadball™
Anna Schrefl, Rudolph Wächter

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

17:30
5th Module 1 h
Bioenergetics
Eva Polacek

18:30
6th Module 1,5 h
Pilates 2, System Europe
Anna Schrefl, Rudolph Wächter

Thursday, August 12, 2010

17:30
7th Module 1 h
Rolfing® & Rolfing® Movement 1
Theory and set of exercises:
Posture - Placement - Dynamic Alignment
Ingrid Kerec

18:30
8th Module 1,5 h
Nutrition in Dance 2 - Implementable nutrition tips
Eva-Maria Kraft, BA

Friday, August 13, 2010

17:30
9th Module 1 h
Biodynamic structure of the human spine
Dr. Michael Matzner

18:30
10th Modul 1,5 h
Rolfing® & Rolfing® Movement 2
Partner Work, Self-help:
Fascial Release through stretching, activation and manipulation
Ingrid Kerec

The Module 1 - 10 can be confirmed by each lecturer in the carried along "tanzmed.2010.at" workshop issue. If all of the 10 modules are confirmed the workshop participants will receive a certificate of tanzmed.2010.at at the end of the workshop.

This workshop is in English language.


Our goal is the improvement of medical information and support.

The early diagnosis of potentials, the evaluation of overdoing in training as well as resulting therapies are considered in this workshop. The development and progress in the dance education and the quality of the work of a dancer is only given, once his/her work is not limited by injuries or illness.

Medical and therapeutic knowledge will be introduced by specialists, through ten modules. This is an invitation to everyone, who is engaged in dance education and training and who is concerned with the well-being and health of dancers.

Modern and contemporary dance relieved and completed the classic traditions, but the interplay of forces stays important. To ensure balance on the one hand, and maintain the power to jump on the other hand, controlled movement of the joints is essential. Not only the extent of flexibility, but the endurance of muscular activity and stabilised flexibility are required.

From the medical point of view this depicts two essential factors: the flexibility of the joints
and by that the required distension of the tendons' structure and the endurance of the muscular system, to ensure consistant stability in training or performance, without ignoring the muscles fibers quick reaction.

For everyone occupied with movement, be it in an orthopeadic, trauma surgical, or simply physiotherapeuthic or artistic way, dance holds a special fascination: leaving the bottom of reality, like it comes true in dance, on the tip of the toes, perfectioned by Mary Taglionis, and further described by Mircea Eliady in her the magic flight:
"...the desire to break the chains binding us to earth [...] the quest of human nature to go upwards [...]“ requires perfect balance.
Since Dominico da Piacenza formulated the early tracts in dance in Italy in the Renaissance, dance is the interplay of forces, primarily gravitation. This gravitation is, what has to be kept in muscular balance by the agonist and the antagonist, and overcome while jumping. But not only upward motion, as established by the 17th centuries “en dehors“, and demanded by A. Wolynski, the body is opened to the outside and thus all facettes of the body are presented outwards.



Tanzmed Team
This year the Tanzmedizin-workshop takes place at ImPulsTanz for the fourth time. "I am looking forward to a large participation and to the new impulses arising from the workshop", Peter Rille on the Tanzmedizin homepage: www.tanzmedizin.at