Thursday, November 14, 2013

Dancers Are More Intelligent

Dancers Are More Intelligent

By Hedrick Lepsch


Webster describes calligraphy as an "artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering" and "the art of producing such writing." Many today consider handwritten calligraphy an art form and some dedicate their entire lives to mastering calligraphic technique by hand.

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Jean Piaget, a well-known developmental psychologist is credited with saying that, "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." Our brains work by creating neural paths to stored information. Each piece of stored information may be accessed through a single neural path or by many paths depending on how many different ways we have attempted to access that information.

Increasing the number of paths to any given piece of information increases your ability to access that information from any point instead of having to arrive at it through a single pathway each time. The aging process causes these synapses and pathways can deteriorate and fade, leaving us struggling to remember simple things like names or dates. The more unique pathways we can create, the stronger our minds will stay.

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Johnston is considered, with Koch, to be the father of modern calligraphy. Both men published a variety of books on the topic and each developed calligraphic typefaces that are still in standard use today. In fact, the Johnston typeface was the foundation of the font in the signage of the London Underground and continues to live on since it was re-designed in 1988 and developed into the New Johnston typeface.

The key to maintaining the strength of your mind is to participate in activities that force you to make split second decisions, or which force you to quickly and uniquely access previously learned information, thus creating a new neural pathway to that information. When it comes to dancing the best forms are those which allow for free-form lead and follow communication.

This is your experience and if you individualize it to your needs than you will be able to take things in better. Your desire to go on to grad school or other studies will increase as well. There are a lot of different ways to get where you need to go but you really need to remember what you learn.

For those of us who dance socially, we understand that no dance is ever the same. Even if you were to dance six times in a row to the same song with the same person, the dance will look and feel differently each time. This means that every single dance is allowing you to create thousands of new neural paths, which strengthens and protects your mind from decay.

Calligraphy is far from being an antiquated or dying art. It is still thriving through both a handwritten and digital tradition and it will continue to evolve as more time passes. If you are interested in a graphic arts degree, College America has programs available through online and in-class instruction that will provide you with the skills and training that you need to truly succeed as a graphic artist.




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