Committees
Committee Chairs
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Jane Baas, MFA
Chair, Media Committee
Jane Baas has been on the dance faculty at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA) since 1981 and served as department chair from 1996-2001. She received her BS and MA degrees in dance from Western Michigan University and her MFA in dance from Case Western Reserve University. She has served on the boards of the Michigan Dance Association and the American College Dance Festival Association and directed the Festival at WMU in 1985 and 1996. She is a frequent site evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance. Ms. Baas received grants to produce her own concerts in 1989 and 1993 and the Dean’s Technology Fellowship in 2006. Research projects focusing on dancer wellness are currently in progress with colleagues at Case Western Reserve University. She has presented at conferences and workshops nationally and abroad. She currently teaches kinesiology, conditioning, modern dance, dance history and choreography for dance majors and was recognized with the College of Fine Arts Dean’s Teaching Award. She is a member of the National Association of Schools of Dance, the National Dance Education Organization, the Michigan Dance Council, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Dance Medicine & Science.
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Emma Redding, MSc
Chair, Development Committee
Emma graduated from Laban, England in 1993 with a BA Hons Dance Theatre degree and gained her Masters in Sports Science at the University of Essex in 1999. She has danced professionally for a number of modern dance companies including the Hungarian based company Tranz Danz and for Rosalind Newman’s DanceHKNY in Hong Kong. Emma was Assistant Programme Director for London Central YMCA and Lecturer in Dance at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. She now lives in London, England and performs on a freelance basis in both theatre and site specific works. Emma teaches contemporary dance technique and improvisation at Laban however her focus is Dance Science. She is Head of Dance Science at Laban and Programme Leader of the MSc Dance Science degree programme. The MSc Dance Science Programme was the first of its kind in the world and Emma helped devise, write and validate the programme in 2001. In 2003, she helped host the 13th Annual Meeting of IADMS at Laban. Emma has published original research in the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and Social Behaviour, and Personality and has presents at many national and international conferences. She is a reviewer for the International Learning Journal and is a member of the Scientific Research Committee for the International Network for Performance Science. Emma’s research interests include training methodologies, injury incidence and prevention, developing interdisciplinary screening programmes, pedagogical considerations in technique class, and the physiological requirements of training and performance. Her PhD was an investigation into dance specific ways of testing and training for physical fitness in contemporary dance.
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Rachel Anne Rist, MA
Chair, Education Committee
Rachel-Anne Rist is Director of Dance at the prestigious ballet and theatre school, The Arts Educational School, Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England, and writer and lecturer on dance science. She is author of many articles for journals on dance training, including a first book, The Injured Dancer and a second book published by Dance Books, Anatomy and Kinesiology for Ballet Teachers, based on a manuscript left by Elvind Thomasen, Danish orthopaedic surgeon. Rachel lectures regularly for dance associations, sports medicine organizations and professional dance schools nationally and internationally. For the Royal Academy of Dancing, Rachel was on the Executive Committee, and she chaired the board for the Faculty of Education, and marked anatomy exams. She is on Dance UK’s Healthier Dancer working group and was on the editorial committee of the important Fit to Dance reports, 1 and 2, and has acted as consultant and advisor for many years with Dance UK. She was an external examiner for Middlesex University’s Dance course. A pioneer of ‘safe dance training,’ her approach to teaching and training has been considered ‘ground breaking’ by leading dance establishments. For the last decade, Rachel has been organising and leading Dance Teacher’s conferences in the UK to provide Professional Development for dance teachers and to disseminate dance medicine information. These conferences have provided access to knowledge for teachers, which has directly contributed to a rise in awareness of safe dance training. For IADMS, Rachel was a country correspondent, a member of the Education Committee and contributed to Resource Papers, before becoming President of IADMS, 2003-2005. Rachel hosted the 1997 and 1999 IADMS Annual Meetings at the Arts Educational School, Tring Park, UK.
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Matthew Wyon, PhD
Chair, Research Committee
Matthew Wyon, PhD, is a Reader in Performance Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton, UK where he works in both the Sport and Dance Departments. At the University he is the course leader for the MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, the MSc in Dance Science and Director of Studies for 4 dance science and medicine doctoral candidates who have all presented at IADMS in recent years. He is a member of the IADMS Research Committee and sits on the Medical Advisory Committee of Dance UK and gives lectures to students at vocational dance schools on their behalf on “The Healthier Dancer” programme. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (NSCA) and is the exercise physiologist for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Ballet. He has worked with numerous dancers and companies within the UK as an applied physiologist and fitness trainer. He has been a member of IADMS for the last nine years and has presented at the last six conferences. He was also a Board member between 2003-2005. He has published 12 peer-reviewed and 8 professional dance science articles and was asked by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science to write the fitness testing guides for dancers that was published in 2006.
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