This video, from Drum Corps International, gives a look into the incredibly high metabolic demands of performing in a competitive drum corps. These marching athletes can rehearse for 8- 12 hours per day over the course of their 3-month rehearsal and competition seasons. The show design from DCI corps often serve as inspiration for competitive high school marching bands.
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Highlights from the 2018 PAMA International Symposium
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These articles provide simple introductions to the occupational health (OH) issues noted in the visual and performing arts. They were published in 2017 as a series by lead author Dr. David Hinkamp. The articles were intended to help OH practitioners increase their understanding of some of the basic health issues facing workers in the arts, and resources for their use in treating and preventing these problems.
1. Occupational Health and the Arts.
Hinkamp DL, McCann M, Babin A.
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Members of the Athletes and the Arts Coalition met October 16 in Indianapolis to set strategy for its work to address health and safety issues for performing artists.
By Marshall Chasin, AuD, Bethany Ewald Bultman, and Dan Beck, Guest-editors
On February 26, 1917, the first jazz recording was pressed for the Victor record label, featuring the Original Dixieland “Jass” Band’s Dixie Jass One Step and Livery Stable Blues. The record was released 3 months later, and represented what ...
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Shortly after our committee was established in 2015, the College Music Society’s Committee on Musicians’ Health was privileged to host eight webinars on the broad topic of musicians’ health, offering administrators, faculty and students a diverse range of practical strategies for addressing these important topics within the music curriculum. These take on special importance as the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), in collaboration with the Performing Arts Medicine ...
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Unique to Athletes and the Arts is our collection of one page educational fact sheets, devoted to helping and guiding performing artists, music teachers and other educators, medical professionals, and all those instrumental in the well-being and care of any performing artist.
Visitors are encouraged to share the link to our collection or to any specific fact sheet’s post, or print or email the PDF itself (do not, however, distribute any PDF/fact sheet on a different website or publication without our ...
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