Jade Belly Dance

After the wonderful results of Danielle’s University backed study on Belly Dance and Body Image, it seems that we have a new crop of research being done on this ancient art form.

Belly Dancers come in all shapes and sizes (and ages!)

For years people have said belly dance is good for this and good for that. If we all keep participating and encouraging researchers then we can prove it! Could you imagine a world where belly dance is a medically prescribed therapy for women with body image issues and for birth preparation??? A world where Belly dance is taken seriously and everyone knows its not just about shimmies and strategically placed sequins? I think it would be a much better place. The 2 ways we can help this manifest this is to help these researchers with their work. If you are or have been a belly dancer please join in on these surveys.

1) URGENT SURVEY – Aussie’s needed to fill out this week!

The first one is being run by Emily, an honours year psychology student at Flinders University. She is a belly dancer from Adelaide (that’s in South Australia, for overseas readers) that is  learning both Tribal and Traditional Belly. The survey is entirely confidential, anonymous and voluntary. It doesn’t take long to fill out the short online multiple choice survey about body image. She has decided at this point to limit the entries to Australian Dancers only – so overseas readers are off the hook!
This is the link
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2C7N8DN

2) Bellydance Health Benefits Survey – for dancers the world over

This one is being run by Kerry Stewart in association with the Sydney Middle Eastern Dance Festival. Again it is all confidential and for statistical purposes only. It takes about 10mins to fill out. The deadline on this is November, while the results are set to be published by the festival in 2013. (But why wait? Fill it out now and its done)

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HBBDSYDMEDFEST2012 or via the Sydney Middle Eastern dance festival site

Kerry Stewart can be contacted via kerryis.stewart@gmail.com

Gorgeous readers from across the seas, are there any online studies you know of being run? Surely its not only the Aussie woman that are getting curious about just how great belly dance is. If you have know of a study please comment below with a link. Are there any studies that have already been completed that you know of? It would be awesome if you could share the details below.