In Dancing All Night, we catch up with the members of the Investigation Team half a year after the ordeal of the Midnight Channel. Rise has enlisted the aid of Yu and the others to assist in her comeback as an idol by serving as her backup dancers. She is headlining the Love Meets Bonds festival together with an exciting up-and-coming act called Kanamin Kitchen - whose members later disappear under mysterious circumstances. There is an eerily familiar rumor closely tied to the festival; if one logs on to the official website at midnight, a video of a presumed dead idol dancing plays. If one watches the sinister movie to the end, one's shadow is transported to the other side, leaving behind a comatose husk.…
This week’s lecture by Professor Dan Gilbert and the excerpts of Tera Hunter’s works titled “Domination and resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta” and “Dancing and Carousing the Night Away” portrayed the role labor relations played in relation to inequality. It is quite interesting how the relations in the workplace mirror those in the community and across the nation. Tera Hunter discuss how workers challenged daily inequality in the workplace and Professor Gilbert made the social and political implication of their actions more obvious. In the workplace power is an important thing and those in power often abuse it.…
“To say that what they do is not athletic is unfair. On top of all the physicality involved a dancer must make the steps look easy & perform them with a smile on their face. Dance is a beautiful sport & the dancers are beautiful, inspiring athletes!”(Livingston).This quote shows that calling dance a sport is actually correct, and this primary source was able to show that with their past experience that there are many facts that prove that the definition of dance really does line up with the definition of…
Norman Doidge’s argument in The Brain that Changes Itself, is that the culture we experience at a young age is what shapes the character and content of our brains in the future. Norman argues, “Our brains are modified by the cultural activities we do” (62). I think Doidge’s argument is critically important and corresponds to the medical research of the impact musical culture has on children done by neurologist Yuxin Wang of Beijing Normal University. According to Wang, children before the age of seven should actively participate in playing musical instruments.…
What was neat about the article was she described all the science behind doing a group activity and its effect on the brain. In short, it releases endorphins, bathes your brain in dopamine, lowers cortisol, increases serotonin, generates prolactin, and creates the feeling of love with oxytocin. Group activities, especially singing, are fireworks for your brain.…
The author also explains the positive impact dancing and performing has on a person’s body. It keeps weight down, increases energy levels, and is an entertaining way to workout. Athletes and dancers use their physical abilities differently, but in a way at the same intensity level. This article will help me explain the important of a dancer’s body, for when dance pushes physical and mental abilities further than they know.…
baker along with the colleagues at West Forest School of Medicine. This experiment was about moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise primarily focusing on the use of a treadmill. By choosing to use a treadmill, over any other exercise equipment, increases blood flow to areas of the brain that is responsible for memory and the mental process. The results found concluded that the brain has a dramatic affect when it comes to you being able to score higher on cognitive tests. Further, people who have a mild level of cognitive impairment were tested and results in lower test scores, even if they exercise vigorously.…
The article is about how our brain responds to music and how it helps a person with Traumatic Brain Injury. George Howard, a contributor to Forbes magazine, interviewed the CEO of the company "MedRythms" Brian Harris, to explained how their approach is more effective than Physical Therapy. "MedRhythms" is a neuro-rehab company that helps people who suffered a neurologic injury or disease to be treated using "Neurologic Music Therapy". According to the website of the company Medrythms, Neurologic Music Therapy or NMT is the therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions due to neurologic disease of the human nervous system. Mr. Brian Harris, the CEO of the company "MedRythms" said that the rhythm is the reason…
It means children need to be exposed to risky play, which involves risky outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing on the trees, riding bikes or scoters fast, play with saw, and in the frost. In other words, allowing children to experience risky play and mange it on their own can mean keeping them safe in the long run. Risky play appears to have a positive effect on the brain and child’s ability to…
When first reading the title of the article it gave me the impression that ballet is more beneficial than just your health. It is important that you get work skills experience for jobs and it is amazing that ballet can make you a better leader. After reading this article it is clear that ballet helps you with aspects that can make you a good leader. Also, some of the points were more figurative than literal. For example, they use spotting as a metaphor for keeping your eye the goal.…
Naïve Art is the work of an artist with no formal training or lacking the rule of perspective. Naïve painting is described as fresh, childlike, also the use of strong rhythmic design and vivid colors. Fernando Botero’s Dancing In Colombia is a perfect representation of Naïve art.…
It has been stated that aerobic fitness enhances memory and learning. Physical fitness helps prevent atrophy of brain regions. Also, a balanced diet is another key in maintain brain fitness. Plus, eating right to maintain your blood sugar levels, which affects brain health. Blow flow to the brain deceases over time.…
My first main point is how music benefits the brain. 1. Music makes you smarter. According to contributive writer for Wake up World, Deane Alban “How Music Benefits the Brain” claims that people that play and listen to a lot of music tend to have a larger corpus callosum. It is the group of nerve fibers that lets the two hemispheres of the brain communicate with each other, making problem solving easier.…
Music has been a part of people’s everyday lives for so long. It even evolved in a lot of different ways, then again, not everyone knows how much it actually affects the human mind and body. It doesn’t just make us sing along when we hear some of our favorite songs, it doesn’t just make us dance and groove, but it also has amazing scientific and medical effects. According to neuroscientist and author of This Is Your Brain on Music, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, when people try to understand what exactly is the meaning of music and where it actually came from, people could have a better understanding on how it affects their motive, desires, memories, fears, and even communication. “Is music listening more along the lines of eating when you’re hungry, and thus satisfying an urge?…
This is now used to see what happens as we listen to music or when we perform it. Neuroscientist Lorenz asked British rock stars Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley to help out with a new experiment. When the MRI scan was performed in a random patient while the rock stars were playing as a duet and separated, he found differences in brain activity. He found more brain activity when they were playing as a duet. The brain is teaching us about music and music is teaching us about the…