Past Events and Meetings

2017 Performing Arts Health Symposium
Unisa Music Foundation
October 2-3, 2017
Pretoria, South Africa
The Unisa Music Foundation will host the first South African Performing Arts Health Symposium on the Unisa main campus in Pretoria. The symposium will include research presentations and panel discussions on performing arts health. Panel and round table discussions will focus on medical problems affecting performing artists (primarily musicians and dancers) in South Africa.

Part of the symposium will be dedicated to the establishment of …

October 12 – 15, 2017
Houston, Texas
The 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS) will be held in Houston, Texas, USA from Thursday, October 12 – Sunday, October 15, 2017. Special Interest Days will be held during the conference, including A Day for Teachers (ADFT) on Friday, October 13, and A Day for Medics (ADFM) on Saturday, Oct 14.
This year’s conference will take place at the JW Marriott Houston, situated in the …

36th Annual PAMA International Symposium
Glamor and Grit: Building An Entourage for Health
Chapman University
Orange, California, USA
Saturday, June 30 – Tuesday, July 3, 2018
 
The PAMA symposium is designed to meet the research and practice needs of physicians, therapists, athletic trainers, educators, artistic directors, and other health care and performing arts professionals who seek to improve the well-being of performing artists.
We encourage the submission of research-based abstracts. Educational abstracts as well as proposals for workshops will …

14th Congress of Dance Medicine:
June 1st − 3rd, 2018 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
The 14th Congress of Dance Medicine offers the possibility for scientific and practical exchange on two general topics: promoting health through dance and promoting health for dancers, dance teachers, dance creators and ballroom dancers.
Abstract Deadline – October 15, 2017
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November 1, 2017

The scientific committee of the ICPAM2018 now welcomes abstracts for oral presentations as well as poster presentations for the International Conference on Performing Arts Medicine 2018 in The Hague The Netherlands. The goal of ICPAM2018 is to share state of the art medical scientific knowledge on the topics of dance, music, voice, hearing and mind.

The first day of ICPAM2018 is devoted to Musicians’ Medicine and the third day to Dance Medicine. On the ‘overlapping’ …

January 12, 2018
You are invited to submit an abstract on topics t hat include a broad spectrum of research and practice relating to Performing Arts Medicine including various topics associated with the lifecycle of the performing artist. Participants selected by the program committee will have the opportunity to present and share their research to contribute to the conference objectives.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically by 5:00 pm on January 12, 2018
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“Empowering Musicians:  Leading a Healthy and Fulfilling Life”

March 17, 2018
Orlando, Florida
MTNA has been a powerful advocate for musicians’ health for over thirty years, and will continue this effort with its fifth consecutive Pedagogy Saturday wellness track. This year’s track focuses on the important correlations between mind and body in maintaining our wellbeing. As in previous years, MTNA continues in its pursuit of bringing together musicians and medical professionals who passionately seek to empower musicians to achieve …