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How to Create Your Own Home Dance Studio

Stuck at home, but still need to train? Here’s everything you need to build your own dance studio at home.

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In Italy, ‘Io Resto a Casa,’ but Still I Dance

Dance is a social art form that happens in crowded rooms full of people. Partnering and dance instruction are all about touching. Movement requires large spaces. So what happens in a period of enforced separation and reduced square footage? In Italy, dancers have been experiencing these disruptions for weeks. There, the slogan “Io resto a casa,” or “I stay home,” has become a national manifesto.

Guest Author: Marina Harss

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A Dancer’s Brain Develops in a Unique Way

Music activates our deeper brain areas, but what happens in a dancer’s brain? Movement can trigger a flow state which makes way for an intuitive neural network.

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