Join Dr. Janine Stubbe of Codarts and Erasmus University Rotterdam to learn about the value of health monitoring in circus, how monitoring can be performed, and how health data sets can be used in daily practice.

At the beginning of her academic career, her focus was on injury prevention in elite athletes. Through Codarts, she was first introduced to circus artists, dancers, and musicians, and immediately saw striking similarities between performing artists and athletes. Both groups demonstrate a strong intrinsic motivation to push themselves to the limit, and both face immense pressure to deliver peak performances.

The key difference, however, was that in the world of sports, extensive knowledge and expertise in sports medicine and support structures are well established—whereas in the performing arts there was still a vast opportunity for improvement in this area.

This realization shaped the mission of Dr. Stubbe’s research line: to ensure that Codarts students and performing artists can shine on the world’s leading stages—sustainably and in good health.

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Janine Stubbe is a human movement scientist and employed as a professor Arts & Wellbeing at Codarts Rotterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam. On the one hand, she focuses on optimizing the health of circus artists, dancers, and musicians (Healthy Artists research line) and on the other hand on arts interventions to improve the health of various target groups (Arts for Health research line). Janine has published more than 75 international publications and is a frequent invited speaker at international and national conferences. Janine is director of the Performing Artists and Athlete Research Lab (PEARL), the research center of Codarts.

Maximize Your Circus Performance: Health Monitoring in Circus