Dancers/Dance Teachers Needed for Research

You can contribute to the future of dance by becoming involved in research within the dance science arena.

Please find below a research project that requires your help:

Participants with feet required!

A group of trainee podiatrists (foot specialists) with a special interest in preventing foot and leg injury and proactively improving dancers' foot health are looking at the effect of ballet shoes on dancers feet when they jump.

Participants will be required to do 6 soubresauts, three with shoes and three barefoot on a stable pressure mat. This will take no longer than 15 minutes.

We will be gathering data from Friday 16th January to Saturday 13th February 2010.

If you are a teacher or teach a regular class, please consider being involved. We will bring our equipment to your school or studio to minimise inconvenience to your students.

If you are an independent dancer and know friends/others who would be interested, we can come to wherever you all do class and gather data there (e.g. after class).

Participants must be:
• Over 16 years old
• Male or female
• Currently in vocational training or dancing professionally
• Have at least 2 years (men) or 5 years (women) ballet training
• Injury-free in the 2 weeks prior to data collection
• In possession of a pair of soft canvas ballet flats (any maker)

For further details of the project or to participate, please contact Lucas Lundgren

Email: u0709829@uel.ac.uk

Phone: 07931 306 319

Notice: University of East London Ethics Committee will govern the conduct of this project.

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