An international non-profit organisation to share expertise gained in the fields of Dance Medicine and Science

applied to South Asian Dance.

Background

The association was launched in April 2017 by Seema De Jorge-Chopra and Dr. Jatin Ambegaonkar to disseminate the research of its international members. We offer our expertise within educational institutes, conferences, professional dance companies and more. If you would like us to visit you and advise upon the dancer's wellbeing and injury prevention, you can contact us, we are international! UK, USA, India and Malaysia.

Fitter & stronger dancers..Learn about your gym workout here

Have you hit the gym blindly, hoping to make yourself fitter, stronger, faster, but really, you don’t know where to start? The gym floor is full of equipment, a diverse range of weights, bands, machines, rollers, some of which can be incredibly intimidating! So do you stick with the treadmill and watch from afar? I know the feeling! Which is why I would like to share some tips for how to select the exercises and routines that are right for you and your dance form. ___________

The right food for performers

We are starting a series of write-ups on the right foods for performing artists and here, we discuss about dietary fibres. What are dietary fibres? We are so familiar with the saying ‘Include a lot of fibre in your diet’. Have we, however thought about why we should stress so much on the ‘fibre content’ of our diets? Let’s start by understanding what dietary fibres actually are: Unlike other food components like fat, protein and carbohydrates, dietary fibres (also called r

Recovery from a C-section: A Kathak dancer's journey

Do you plan to get pregnant and/or are pregnant, and want to ensure that you keep dancing? Do you want to plan the recovery from a cesarean section? Then read this blog by Kathak dancer/ Dance Scientist Seema De Jorge-Chopra, MSc and Specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapist Marta De Oliveira PG Cert, MCSP for useful information to help you recover better and faster. The aim of this blog is to share the cesarean section recovery process from the perspective of Kathak dancer;