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.