TEDx Talks
Dance and the mind
Peter is a reader in psychology and principle lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, but his first love was dance. Before entering academia, he trained at the Guildford School of Acting and the Cecchetti Ballet, and worked as a professional dancer. Later, he went to study psychology and computational neuroscience and in 2008, he set up the first Dance Psychology Lab. This has enabled him to combine his twin passions of dance and psychology and, through experimental work, to explore the ways in which dance, and different types of dance, can affect the brain. His most recent work, and the subject of his talk, has involved investigating the effects of dance on people suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. Dr Peter Lovatt’s talk at TEDxObserver (http://www.guardian.co.uk/tedx) 2010 was cited by many in the audience as one of their highlights of the day.
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question… i have rhythm and can catch a beat but can’t dance why is that ?
did the dance w the people in the video @ the end because I couldn't resist 😁👍 lots of fun! 💃
Love this video
Even watching this was fun😄
One of my favorite TED talks ever!
This is fantastic! As a dance teacher and currently studying to be a Marriage & Family Therapist I literally yelled out loud with how great this was! I love his energy and his lack of inhibitions.
hehe 4:20 Pm 28-08-2019 New Delhi, India
this makes so much effing sense to me omg. back in 9th grade and below, i used to be the most timidest and shiest person EVER, that was when i used to rarely dance. in late 10th grade, i started to get a little less shy with people, that was when i got motivated to dance more after my sisters complimented my dancing skills. in 11th grade, after summer holidays, everyone told me that i was a COMPLETELY different person and that i was very sociable and fun, and that was after i danced almost everyday during the holidays. IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. my best friend and i have been wondering what went through me that made me change so much, and i FINALLY got the answer
All quite interesting
That was great to know, as a dancer!
I enjoyed and learnt so many things, I didnt even knew, it was so beneficial for me..👍😃
Thanks a lot sir peter
I would have been on that stage so fast! Believe they all stayed down there! Brilliant talk!
That was Awesome
there's nothing better than watching a psychologist make an entire group of people dance
Love this guy!
This is fabulous! Thank you! I think the whole world needs to dance! Soul! The happiest people are those that dance! 💃🏼🕺🏻
I hope some people from this audience started dancing as a hobby!
Jolly Good! LOL XD those slangs
vibrations and rhythm – a balance
Fantastic! Inspiration. 🙂
Love this just brilliant,and so true, we are at Zumba a few times a week and so many people say it's helps with depression moodiness etc aswell as the obvious fitness and weight loss benefits
as a person that has always felt uncomfortable at the idea of dancing, Feeling depressed at my ineptitude in this subject at worst and just usually disgusted I find it's psychology very interesting
Why do we dance? I'd add "how"? I have dance as a complete blindspot.(my second largest, I think) physically and psychologically both.
Comes with my autism?
V. Interesting talk. Socialising Dance bit left me totally alienated
Really interesting stuff, and great to see people moving at a TEDTalk 🙂
BRAVO!!!
We did this today as part of a psychology conference, it was amazing there was 900 of us in the hall, he must feel so pleased getting everyone to dance all the time. Thoroughly enjoyed it!!
the camera man put those guys not dancing on blast… hahaha!
Peter (Dr Dance) just brings a total smile to my face.
This would also apply to many martial arts as they are physical social and cognitive as well.