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‘It’s like collective daydreaming’: the giant study showing how dancing affects our brains

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Neurolive is the first study of its type at this scale, measuring up to 23 brains at once.

Dance neuroscience is a young field of study, partly because of the difficulty of putting a dancer (or audience member) into a brain scanner.

The study also found greater synchrony between people who attended the same performance versus those who sat in the same seat at the next show.

Butoh emerged in Japan in the 1960s , a dance form most often associated with white-painted faces and bodies.

It’s a dance generated from inside the body (rather than steps imposed from outside) with performers tapping into emotional and transformational states.

Vangeline is bringing a solo version, minus EEG , to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle on 23 November .

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