News for Week of November 21, 1999
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Not Just Any Body Conference Reports
The historic conference on dance and dance training took place simultaneously in Toronto and The Hague with satellite links to other locations November 12 - 14. You can read reports at http://www.notjustanybody.com on the wide variety of sessions which covered such topics as trade-offs between health and artistic excellence, authoritarian and abusive teaching styles, and other challenges in today's dance world. A more detailed publication including transcripts, papers, and presentation excerpts will be available in spring 2000 and can be ordered now at this same web site. Tapes of sessions can also be ordered online.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week that people with dyslexia have an abnormality in the auditory cortex so that the brain does not correctly process brief, rapidly changing sounds. Children learning to read are not able to break a word into its phonemes (basic sound parts), the first step in learning to read. The researchers recommend therapy which trains the brain to increase the speed and accuracy for processing staccato sounds.
Updated November 21, 1999