2005 Business Meeting Minutes

Dance Kinesiology Special Interest Group Meeting
International Association for Dance Medicine and Science Annual Meeting
Stockholm, Sweden
November 2005

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Facilitated by Jane Baas, special interest group chair; Pam Geber, chair-elect; Tom Welsh, immediate past chair

Update on Special Interest Group Status/Planning for Special Interest Day for 2006

• Started several years ago and have been going forward without much formalization
• Criteria – Must submit proposal if want to be considered for presenting a SIG day for Dance Kinesiology Teachers for 2006 conference; IADMS website has news
• Must know group needs – Lecture, studio, 20 or more people, justification for programming
• Limited to three groups for SIG day – 2 lecture rooms, 2 movement sessions
• Program committee will select from proposals submitted
• Nov. 30th – Deadline for submission of proposal
• Dec. 15 notification; Feb. 1 – 1st draft schedule; Final draft March 15
• May submit proposal for any year of interest; level playing field for selection but only three groups per year
• Past successes will give a favorable cast, but not a guarantee
• Notice that 2007 IADMS meeting will be held in Australia
• A question was raised if a lunch-time meeting would be possible? Tentatively yes, depends on site availability
• Motion – Appoint an organizing committee (Jane, Pam, chair elect) to plan an event in connection with the somatics event at Univerity of Utah and half day shared with Dance Teachers at IADMS (unanimous)

Selection of chair-elect for 2005-2006 who then becomes group chair in 2006-07

• Self-nominations were solicited.
• Nomination from the floor – Margaret Wilson was nominated and consented to serve.
• Motion – Appoint Margaret Wilson by acclamation (unanimous)

Update on website

• Jane will upload results of this meeting to join the results from last year’s meeting;
• Eva Powers is spearheading the resource compilation project. Send Eva Powers web links that might be useful to Dance Kinesiology Teachers; she will post them. Eva.powers@wayne.edu

New business

• There will be a Somatics workshop August 11-13, 2006 with Irene Dowd at the University of Utah targeted for dance teachers and advanced dancers. To include discussion, how to apply information to teaching each afternoon; UU interested in hosting another mini-conference; NDA in Utah, end of April
• Marijeanne Liederbach reported preliminary findings for a project she is directing for the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS). A summary of the project appears below. Please check the IADMS web site <www.iadms.org> for more information on the project later this spring.
  Research Committee Report:
  Three-year Consensus Project on Standardization
  of Screening for Intrinsic Dancer Capacity, Extrinsic Risk Factors & Injury Reporting

  At last year’s IADMS annual meeting in San Francisco, the IADMS Research Committee (RC) presented a panel to discuss the creation of consensus for standardized methods of measuring intrinsic dancer capacities, extrinsic training/environmental risk factors, and an injury surveillance system. Our vision was to establish a set of uniform standards based on best practices, as agreed upon by stakeholders concerned with the health and well-being of dancers. The panel session closed with a call for the RC to initiate its three-year plan for achieving consensus as affirmed by the community.

  PURPOSE & SCOPE OF PROJECT: The purpose of the IADMS consensus project is to encourage within the international dance medicine and science community adoption of a linked, uniform testing and reporting systems that will enable the cooperative building of a global, privacy-protected database describing dancers. It is believed such an accomplishment will facilitate risk reduction strategies and a culture of wellness in the dance community.

  The project aims to:
  • Establish a screening system that addresses the biopsychosocial aspects of the dancer’s life and includes:
  -- history (family and personal medical and social history including menstrual and nutritional status, dance training history and injury history, and psychometrics as appropriate)
  -- systems review
  -- specific functional tests/measures
  • A web-based audiovisual tutorial of gold-standard tests
  • A universal injury reporting system with uniform naming conventions that is able to identify and quantify dancer exposure and extrinsic risk factors.

  To date, a preliminary review of the literature has been conducted. Also, thirteen IADMS members outside of the United States volunteered to be their country’s representatives and collect the screening forms currently being used for dancer screenings by various individuals and groups. From this year-one data collection effort, a descriptive analysis of the breadth and frequency of screening items was completed. Fifty-eight forms were received by the Consensus Project Chair and results were prepared for presentation at the annual conference in Stockholm.

  The RC views among its most important goals for 2006 the coordination and dissemination of information between all consensus project entities and to the IADMS membership. It will utilize as many communication resources as necessary, including its newsletter, email listserv, and interactive website features, to reach and update the community about the project. The RC will work with the Executive Board of IADMS to secure funding for elements of this project if/as needed. The RC has identified a specific list of areas in need of advancement on the consensus project and intends to use the Stockholm conference as an opportunity to call for volunteers from the membership to provide leadership and execution of these activities (see the complete report for a detailed list of proposed 2006 activities).
  
  Next IADMS meeting: Oct. 19-22, 2006, West Palm Beach, Florida; Australia meeting will be the last week October, 2007.

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