Dance, Movement, and the Brain with Constantina Theofanopoulou, Ph.D.

Dance is a universal part of our culture—whether you’re doing ballet, ballroom, the latest TikTok dance craze, or just freestyling on the dance floor with friends.

It turns out this urge to express ourselves through movement has some fantastic side benefits. A growing body of research is revealing that dancing can be therapeutic, emotionally uplifting, and healthy for our brains.

Join Secret Science Club with neuroscientist & dancer Constantina Theofanopoulou to explore how dance, rhythm, and movement affect our minds, our moods, and our well-being.

About Constantina Theofanopoulou:
Constantina Theofanopoulou: is a neuroscientist and an award-winning flamenco dancer. She is the Herbert and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University, a Visiting Scholar at New York University, and a Research Associate at Emory University and the US Department of Veteran Affairs. She’s using her experience in dance to inform research on the connections between dance and speech—and the possibility that dance therapy might improve deficits in speech, particularly among people coping with Parkinson’s Disease.

This edition of Secret Science Club is part of the Dana Foundation Neuroscience & Society Talk Series and supported by the Dana Foundation as part of its Dana Education program. The Foundation’s mission is to advance neuroscience that benefits society and reflects the aspirations of all people.

[StephanieSoressi]

I just yesterday wrote a comment on a different video, in which I commented on Chomsky's belief that music is a spandrel of language, and the most ancient of Brahman songs, to bring rain -- of which they no longer understood the specific words, turned out to be mimicry of bird songs -- the type that preceded rain! And I asked a couple of questions... I'm going to go find that comment & come back here to ask those questions! Synchronicity or what?

[oscaromondi]

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