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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear
colleagues,</span></font></b><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I
note that there is much research published on warming-up exercises for dancers,
for sports people, and some for musicians. There are, of course, also warm-up
exercises for theatre actors, but research on those seems sparse, and much less
systematic, than for dance or sports. There seems to be much less on
cooling-down with regard to sports, dance and music, and hardly anything for
actors--they will tell you they go to the pub to cool down...<br>
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I would like to assess whether there is sufficient mileage in setting up a
network of colleagues across the UK and beyond, ideally with AHRC funding in
due course, from theatre, dance, sports and music, to survey the existing
research across the disciplines and on that basis develop a research project to
make approaches (at least for the theatre context) for warm-up more systematic
and better understood (rather than the current random pick and mix approach)
and to introduce appropriate cool-down theory and practice (again in the
theatre context--colleagues from other disciplines may be able to develop their
own, possibly comparative, projects on the basis of sharing, discussion and the
survey).</span></font></b><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Any views or expressions of interest welcome
off list to me at <a href="mailto:dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk" target="_blank">dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, University of
Lincoln, UK</span></font></b><font size=4 color=blue><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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