This is an excellent opportunity to incorporate health education and dance medicine presentations into your studio's schedule. Dancers come to your studio to learn to dance, to move, to stay fit. They learn healthy competition, discipline, and postural mechanics.They want to perform and they want to compete. Besides all of the exciting movement classes that studios offer, these Dance Medicine workshops can help them advance their technique, better understand movement and learn more about fitness.Every dancer deserves the right to dance in a safe environment with the latest data regarding health and injury care. Every student needs to feel secure that their studio is giving them the best training with the most updated health facts. Pick the workshops that best suit your studios needs and learn how to benefit financially, as well.
For example, truly understanding core stability in relation to dance technique will increase dancer's strength and enhance performance. A few basic age appropriate, safe, core exercises can be incorporated into your schools curriculum with excellent results. These exercises are based on the works of Joe Pilates but have been designed especially for young dancers. They will prevent injuries to hips and backs as well as increase body placement awareness. Being aware of what causes injury will in-turn prevent injury. All dance techniques have injury related risks, minimize those risks by hosting dance medicine workshops for the benefit of your studio. Be a leader in the field of dance medicine.
Are your students pushing to go on pointe? As instructors, are you comfortable with their ability and strength but not sure how to tell if they are ready for pointe? Age is not always the final determining factor.There are muscle tests, balance tests and range of motion tests which will help instructors in pointe work decisions. The pre-pointe evaluations workshop is also designed to help students understand their physical limitations, as well as enhance their attributes. This workshop also includes exercises and stretches beneficial for pointe work. Specific pre-pointe exercises helps the students understand the anatomical needs of pointe work and will give them more balance and security on pointe.
Do the competition judges comment on your dancers needing more strength, turn-out and flexibility? Look into a theraband class workshop or anatomy barre workshop. These workshops focus on strength training and alignment and are appropriate for all ages.They include new and updated stretches beneficial for hamstrings, turn-out, hip flexors and the lower legs. Dancers enjoy these workshops because they are different from their normal technique classes, they are interactive and encourage discussion. These are important learning tools that they will have all of their young careers.
Contact Dance Medicine Academic Seminars to assist your students in advancing their technique and enhancing their performance.
As parents, we want our sons and daughters to have the best and safest experience in learning to dance. These are skills that will be with them the rest of their life. Being a young dancer can blossom into a professional career in ballet or musical theatre. Young dance students can have successful teaching careers in college dance departments or as studio owners. Dance brings creativity, musicality and excellent fitness education into our children's lives. Dancers develop self-esteem, discipline and postural awareness as they grow. Every young dancer deserves the right to dance in an environment where the teaching staff is supportive of dance medicine and health education.
Parents can organize a parent committee to host dance medicine workshops to benefit students and staff. Workshops that directly relate to their studios needs. These are fun, interactive workshops designed specifically for dancers. They can give students more injury prevention awareness and body placement education. These workshops also give instructors new material for enhancing their teaching skills. Instructors enjoy benefits of continuing dance education courses. Your dance studio can continue to grow in the areas of technique enhancement, readiness for pointe, gaining strength and injury prevention.
Take some time to review the options and begin to set the standard in health education for local dance schools.