Inside Convergence

Written by Jillian Murray The project Convergence (Artistic Director, Dr. Aston K. McCullough) took place from September 2022 to February 2023, fusing together elements of live musicians, filming, and Five College faculty and dancers collaborating to create an artistic piece representative of the findings of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research Lab, Laboratory […]

gravity Volume 3, Issue 2: publication highlights

This Spring, over 40 articles were featured on gravity….   Aishwarya, V., Babu, R. D., Adithya, S. S., Jebaraj, A., R, V. G., & Veezhinathan, M. (2023). Identification of Improper Posture in Female Bharatanatyam Dancers – A Computational Approach. 2023 International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT), 560–566. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICT57646.2023.10134062 Aldana-Benítez, D., Caicedo-Pareja, M. J., Sánchez, D. […]

Recognizing Indian Classical Dance Forms Using Transfer Learning

M. R. Reshma has a new article, Recognizing Indian Classical Dance Forms Using Transfer Learning, published in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence Techniques for Data Engineering. Reshma, M. R., Kannan, B., Jagathyraj, V. P., & Sabu, M. K. (2023). Recognizing Indian Classical Dance Forms Using Transfer Learning. In P. Singh, D. Singh, V. Tiwari, & […]

Human Motion Recognition in Dance Video Images Based on Attitude Estimation

Nian Li has a new article, Human Motion Recognition in Dance Video Images Based on Attitude Estimation, published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Li, N., & Boers, S. (2023). Human Motion Recognition in Dance Video Images Based on Attitude Estimation. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2023, 4687465. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4687465 Contributor: LAB:SYNC

VR Dance Training System Capable of Human Motion Tracking and Automatic Dance Evaluation

Kazuhiro Esaki has a new article, VR Dance Training System Capable of Human Motion Tracking and Automatic Dance Evaluation, published in PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality. Esaki, K., & Nagao, K. (2023). VR Dance Training System Capable of Human Motion Tracking and Automatic Dance Evaluation. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00383 Contributor: LAB:SYNC

Psychological stress responses to a live performance by professional flamenco dancers

Rosa de las Heras-Fernández has a new article, Psychological stress responses to a live performance by professional flamenco dancers, published in PeerJ. de las Heras-Fernández, R., Mendoza, G., & Jimenez, M. (2023). Psychological stress responses to a live performance by professional flamenco dancers. PeerJ, 11, e15282. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15282 Contributor: LAB:SYNC

Dance and Its Effect on The Mental Health of Performing Arts Students: A Descriptive-Comparative Analysis

Christian Ashley Calica has a new article, Dance and Its Effect on The Mental Health of Performing Arts Students: A Descriptive-Comparative Analysis, published in International Journal of Education and Humanities. Calica, C. A., & Lobo, J. (2023). Dance and Its Effect on The Mental Health of Performing Arts Students: A Descriptive-Comparative Analysis. International Journal of […]

Dancers exhibit decreases in postural control after fatigue

Devin Bulkley has a new article, Dancers exhibit decreases in postural control after fatigue, published in Sports Biomechanics. Bulkley, D., & Jarvis, D. N. (2023). Dancers exhibit decreases in postural control after fatigue. Sports Biomechanics, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14763141.2023.2212643 Contributor: LAB:SYNC

Fast Detection and Rule Based Classification of Bharatanatyam hasta mudra

Soumen Paul has a new article, Fast Detection and Rule Based Classification of Bharatanatyam hasta mudra, published in Computer Vision and Image Processing. Paul, S., & Das, P. P. (2023). Fast Detection and Rule Based Classification of Bharatanatyam hasta mudra. In D. Gupta, K. Bhurchandi, S. Murala, B. Raman, & S. Kumar (Eds.), Computer Vision and […]

Sequence Recognition in Bharatnatyam Dance

Himadri Bhuyan has a new article, Sequence Recognition in Bharatnatyam Dance, published in Computer Vision and Image Processing. Bhuyan, H., Dhaipule, R., & Das, P. P. (2023). Sequence Recognition in Bharatnatyam Dance. In D. Gupta, K. Bhurchandi, S. Murala, B. Raman, & S. Kumar (Eds.), Computer Vision and Image Processing (pp. 390–405). Springer Nature Switzerland. Contributor: LAB:SYNC