Arte e Extensão se encontram com Saúde através da Educação. Elementos que compõem novo olhar sobre o fazer universitário, de forma dialógica, interdisciplinar e centrada nas pessoas. A arte tem atuado nos ambientes de saúde através da busca de soluções terapêuticas e de um ambiente acolhedor. Educação em Saúde comunica formas de se pensar terapias e, pela Arte, essa comunicação ocupa novos espaços. Nossa ação de Extensão aproxima esses ambientes levando Arte à Saúde e trazendo Saúde à Arte da Dança, voltada para artistas em formação, os empoderando em relação às suas tomadas de decisões e nos cuidados corporais. A partir dessa experiência nossa ação realizou frentes de atuação, ligadas ao acompanhamento das atividades remotas oferecidas, as aulas semanais sobre conteúdos de saúde para a prática da dança e o monitoramento do retorno das aulas práticas presenciais. Mudamos a Saúde pela Arte e na Cultura de Arte com Saúde.

Dance is a unique blend of art and athleticism, which makes its practitioners particularly susceptible to skeletal muscle injuries and pain. Dancers are subjected to intense training, which contributes towards increasing the severity of injury. Injuries occur significantly more frequently in hypermobile dancers than in the non-hypermobile individuals. The present study aimed to correlate the Joint Mobility Index, obtained through Carter and Wilkinson’s Joint Mobility Scale, as modified by Beighton, with the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries among students at vocational schools for classical ballet in Brazil, and to make a correlation with self-reported presence of pain and muscle fatigue. This study indicates that there is a real association between hypermobility as a risk factor for lesions, which were more present in hypermobile individuals. On the other hand, pain was inversely presented, such that it was more present in non-hypermobile dancers, perhaps because of skeletal muscle overload to meet the physical and esthetic needs of ballet. Fatigue was not an important variable in the analyses between the groups, and was similar between them. It is especially important to establish a relationship regarding the need for intensive therapeutic care for treating of skeletal muscle injuries among hypermobile individuals.Key-words: classical ballet, musculoskeletal system, injuries, joint mobility index, physiotherapy.

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Body image is an important component of the complex mechanism of personal identity. The subjective component of body image refers to individuals’ satisfaction with their body size or specific parts of their body. Ballet has been cited in some studies on feeding behavior among athletes as yet another specific group, who value low weight and overvalue esthetics. The present study aimed to evaluate the potential body image disorders among classical ballet students in Brazilian schools through identifying self-reported body image distortion, using the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) as the instrument. This study is fundamental for the formation of all corporal work that physiotherapists do together with dancers, students or professionals. This was a descriptive study conducted in three schools that are officially recognized as training centers for professional dancers in Brazil. The results indicate homogeneity among the BSQ values attained by the students at the participating schools. Differing from the literature, there was no significant difference between the genders in terms of scoring and distribution of classification of the BSQ levels. We conclude that dissatisfaction with body image is a constant variable and important when dealing with ballet students, and that this importance goes beyond just the esthetic values and towards professional performance. Body image distortions can alter the way in which dance students codify their body, which may facilitate disorders in their physical and mental health.Key-words: classical ballet, body image, musculoskeletal system.