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Safe danceProject report 1, 1990Safe Dance I was commissioned by Ausdance in 1990, with funding from Arts Training Australia (now CREATE Australia). A survey of professional dancers’ injuries was organised by Ausdance National and circulated in 1989 as part of the Safe Dance Project. It was based on a similar survey sent out to British dancers by the National Organisation for Dance and Mime (now Dance UK), and although more extensive in scope, retained some comparability with some of the UK questions. The returns were collated and described by Ann Clarke at the Department of Human Movement and Recreation Studies, University of Western Australia. Tony Geeves was commissioned to collate and describe the results, and to make recommendations to the dance profession. He visited each State and Territory during the period of the project, and consulted widely with studio teachers, dance and movement educators, the medical profession and body therapists. The report presents the results of the survey, which was answered by 86% of the professional dance population. Of these, 43% were male and 57% were female. The report reveals that 86% of those responding were under the age of 30 years, and 52% had suffered a chronic injury by the age of 18. Tony Geeves, the Australian author, was a leading professional dancer
for 25 years in major overseas companies. After retirement, he studied
in Norway, Sweden and at New York University, gaining an MA in Dance
Movement/Therapy in 1989. He returned to Australia shortly afterwards
to undertake this research and write his report for Ausdance and CREATE. |
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