Our Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists are well placed to help dancers achieve greater levels of fitness.  The five elements of fitness have been well studied and there exists much scientific literature outlining ways to test, measure and change them.  All of which can help the dancer achieve optimal fitness - to perform at a consistently high level, to prevent injuries and to rehabilitate faster after injury. 
Like a musical instrument, a dancer’s body needs to be finely tuned to achieve full potential.  Fine-tune your body for optimal dance performance with the help of our dance-specialist physiotherapists, exercise physiologists and Pilates instructors. 

Contact us now for a thorough assessment and set in motion your tailored DANCE BODY exercise program to realise your full dance potential.

Physiotherapy & Exercise Physiology

Dancers are well recognised as athletes.  And like all athletes a key ingredient for successful participation is fitness.  Fitness consists of five key elements, namely: strength, power, endurance, agility and flexibility.  It has been well demonstrated that dancers are the fittest of all athletes.

DANCE BODY

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." 

Dance Explo 2008 Lecture Notes  pdf file
Dance Explo 2009 Lecture Notes  pdf file

A DANCE BODY has ideal

  • Posture and alignment

  • Flexibility and strength

  • Power and endurance

  • Freedom and grace
     

Pilates & Movement Training

Whilst the physicality of dance is unquestionable, considering dance as only a sport is perhaps selling it short.  Dance is more than sport, it has an indefinable quality above and beyond sport.  We believe the difference between dance and sport can be explained in a single word - “Grace”.

Grace may be defined as “Seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement, form, or proportion.  An elegance of manner, motion and action.”   Graceful movement is effortless, it flows without signs of strain, effort or concentration. 

Core stability, posture and kinaesthetic awareness are all vital to achieving graceful movement.  Unfortunately the body is not well designed to achieve the high levels of grace required to be a great dancer, otherwise we all would be. 

Pilates Instructors have the skills and knowledge of the elements of good movement patterns and can teach kinaesthetic awareness so dancers can achieve a DANCE BODY for better, more graceful, patterns of movement.