• Physiological monitoring and health status in professional and elite ballet dancers emerged as a core methodological pattern, integrating noninvasive cardiac evaluation, VO2max testing, heart-rate dynamics, and general physiology to characterize dancer health and performance [4], [5], [15], [18], [19].

• Menstrual health, body weight, and nutritional patterns are recurrent themes, linking amenorrhea risk, menstrual abnormalities, and body composition to performance demands, tested across several cohorts of female dancers [1], [9], [10], [12], [17].

• Injury epidemiology and diagnostic/therapeutic strategies compose a major line, combining tendon injuries, foot trauma imaging, and musculoskeletal injury prevention within theatrical/dance education contexts [2], [3], [6], [13], [16], [20].

• Nonverbal communication and cognitive aspects of dance are explored as theoretical foundations of movement understanding and gesture processing, signaling a cognitive-movement paradigm in dance research [7], [11].

• Movement science and biomechanics frameworks anchor dance research, with studies on locomotion, physiological aspects of movement, and body composition to illuminate how dancers optimize efficiency and form [12], [14], [15].