Performances in N.Y.C. The emerging field of dance neuroscience is finding that dance, with its multifaceted demands, engages the mind as intensively as the body. A scene from “Epiphany Machine” at ...

When a 17-year-old brain cancer patient was disappointed about having to miss her senior homecoming, her caregivers decided to bring the dance to her. Megan Krafty, who lives in Huron, Ohio, was ...

Creative activities boost a child's development. Music sharpens language skills. Art rewires the brain for better thinking. Dance improves memory and mood. Movement enhances learning. Emotional art ...

To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art. When he's struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music and poetry serve as an anchor. "It helps calm ...

The unseen partner in any dance performance is the viewer’s brain, according to Ivar Hagendoorn, a choreographer who studies the cognitive and mathematical foundations of dance. “The appreciation of ...

Audience members at a university dance recital provoked a viral – and visceral – reaction after a social media post with 10 million views showed them taking part in a brain-reading experiment while ...

Did Sir Isaac Newton destroy the beauty of the rainbow by explaining it? Yes, he did. Because of Newton we no longer believe that a rainbow is the shaft of light projected from a pot of gold, or the ...

Fascinating research, published in the journal NeuroImage, finds distinct changes in sensory and motor pathways in the brains of dancers and musicians. However, the changes in white matter are at ...