Main theses from the video: "What is dance: How does ordinary movement differ from dance, what biomechanics and kinesiology study, and how the attitude to the body changed at the beginning of the XX century"

Dance is a part of the motor culture of mankind (analogy with visual culture)
Alexey Gastev (a revolutionary, one of the founders of the movement for the rationalization of labor) called motor culture the sum of the motor habits of the people, a set of motor skills available to a person
Kinesiology is a form of therapy that uses muscle monitoring (biofeedback) to look at imbalances that may be causing disease in the body.
Biomechanics is the science of movement of a living body, including how muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments work together to produce movement.
The concept of motor culture is close to the concept of body technique; French sociologist Marcel Masse proposed to call the ways in which people in different societies use their bodies
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