A Pilot Study January 14, 2022 Thumuluri D, Lyday R, Babcock P, Ip EH, Kraft RA, Laurienti PJ, Barnstaple R, Soriano CT, Hugenschmidt CE. Alzheimer’s disease has profound effects on quality of life, affecting not only cognition, but mobility and opportunities for social engagement. Dance […]
Published in Percussive Notes, April 2020 John R. Beck Beginning in 2015, HealthRHT-YHMS drumming facilitator John R. Beck and therapeutic harpist Ruth Moskop Ph.D. added interactive group drumming to the live music listening experiences offered at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center in […]
Fall 2019 Alan Brown, Christina Soriano. This article describes a beginning-level university dance class with a literacy education focus in which sixteen male student-athletes engaged in readings and movement activities connecting poetry, dance, visual imagery, multimodal literacies, and brain-based learning. These university students took what […]
February 16, 2016 Batson G, Hugenschmidt CE, Soriano CT. Dance is a non-pharmacological intervention that helps maintain functional independence and quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease (PPD). Results from controlled studies on group-delivered dance for people with mild-to-moderate stage Parkinson’s have shown statistically […]
September 2014 Batson, G, Migliarese S, Soriano CT, Burdette, J, Laurienti P. IGROOVE aims to fill a gap in the knowledge about the minimum number of weekly dance classes needed to see benefits in cognition and cardiorespiratory fitness by systematically exploring how the frequency of […]
September 2011 Christina Soriano, Glenna Batson. Within the last decade, research has supported the use of dance for people with Parkinson disease to improve health and wellbeing. While the majority of study findings have been positive for a variety of psychophysical outcomes (gait, mobility, and […]
December 2010 Christina Tsoules Soriano M.F.A. &Karen Clemente Ed.D. At Wake Forest University I teach a unique, eight-week course entitled Movement for Men. This elective class is open only to male undergraduates, and predominantly, the class population is comprised of student-athletes, most of whom are […]
July 16, 2008 Jason Parsley, Christina Tsoules Soriano We detail the collaboration between a math and a dance professor which began with the choreography of a geometrically inspired work. We chart a shared pedagogical experiment, undertaken in two successive semesters, which joins dance students alongside […]