Dance Medicine

Dance Medicine Academic Seminars provides the opportunity to incorporate health education into your studio's schedule. Dancers come to your studio to learn to dance, to move, to stay fit. They want to compete and perform. Besides all of the exciting movement classes that you offer, these 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.

 

Pick the workshops that best suit your studios needs, for example:

 

 

• Injury Prevention- Being aware of what causes injury will help prevent injury. Incorporating a few basic age appropriate safe, core exercises can be incorporated into your studio’s classes to help prevent injuries to the low back. All dance techniques have injury related risks, minimize those risks by hosting an injury prevention workshop.

• Pre-Pointe Screenings- Are your students pushing to go on pointe? As instructors, are you comfortable with their ability, but not sure how to tell if they are ready for pointe? Age is not always the determining factor. This screening includes muscle, balance and range of motion tests which can help you in helping your dancers. It also includes strength training exercises and stretches beneficial for pointe work.

 

All workshops 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, as they are interactive and encourage discussion.

 

As instructors, you have been given a precious gift. You have the ability to teach young students to love dance. You are the link between the art of dance and their brilliant little minds. They come to you for creativity, rhythm, strength, alignment and movement skills. They are like sponges and soak in all of the knowledge you can provide for them. You are responsible for their growth and technical advancement. Whether they want to compete, be professional dancers, own their own studio or simply enjoy dance and grow up to be excellent audiences you are the motivating source. It is important that you always continue your own education to be the best instructor you can be. They need your expertise and your direction.

 

These workshops have been designed to continue your education and sharpen your skills as teachers.These interactive workshops provide new information for your instruction. They will help your eye see technical errors that may cause injury, then, you are able to cue and correct these students even more efficiently. Take a moment to review the workshop options and choose which presentations best suit your personal needs as teachers. Your students will enjoy the new challenges and it will in turn enhance their performance.

Consider 'A Better Arabesque', or 'Understanding the Action of Developpe', both of these workshops focus on which muscles groups actually execute these steps. Emphasis is on core stabilization, proper hip and low back placement. Injury prevention will be discussed, especially low back pain with arabesque and snapping hip with developpe. A series of exercises will be given to specifically strengthen the areas needed to execute these movements. The students will understand how and why the movement occurs. Instructors will understand even better how to analyze the technique and better cue the students.

 

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.

Dance Medicine Academic Seminars is an approved  provider for CEUs by NATABOC.

 

Be a leader in the field of dance medicine, and attend a seminar or help host a course.

As medical professionals, it is our job to keep dancers healthy and safe throughout their careers. By the time that we come into contact with dancer, it is probably due to an injury. They come to us for a solution to their problem and sometimes a “quick fix”. It is our job to explain to the dancer what pre-disposed them to the injury, properly diagnose them, teach them how to effectively rehabilitate the injury and return them safely to their art.

This company has been created by Athletic Trainers to educate medical professionals in the field of performing arts medicine. We have created courses that have been designed to continue your education and sharpen your skills in evaluating, diagnosing, treating dance injuries, and analyzing dance technique. These interactive workshops provide new information for your evaluation skills. They will help your eye see technical errors, and give you creative ways to rehabilitate injuries and correct faulty technique. Please check the calendar for courses in your area or contact us to host a course at your

facility.

 

 

 

 

Dance Medicine Academic Seminars in cooperation with Wellington Pilates and Dance Medicine is an approved provider for CEUs by NATABOC.