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Health and Conditioning

Work on the body itself - strength, mobility, control and recovery.

74 entries across this branch

Within This Branch

  • Aerial 13 entries

    Disciplines worked entirely off the floor, on an apparatus hung from a rigging point.

  • Barre 8 entries

    A Pilates class worked at a ballet barre.

  • Circus Fitness 1 entry

    Circus apparatus work taken as strength training - climbs, inversions and holds, without the tricks built on them.

  • Dance Fitness 10 entries

    Dance taken as a workout, where the routine serves the exercise.

  • Physiotherapy 1 entry

    Assessment and rehabilitation of injury by a registered physiotherapist.

  • Pilates 28 entries

    Exercise built on core stability, breath and precise muscle control, worked on a mat or on sprung apparatus.

  • Pole 22 entries

    Dance and acrobatics worked on a pole.

  • Stretch 22 entries

    Guided flexibility work taken as a class in its own right.

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How Dancers Actually Learn: The Practice Methods That Work, and the Ones That Do Not

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The Styles of Ballet in South Africa: A Dancer's Guide to the Methods and Syllabi

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A choreographer on building work that travels

Notes on making dance that survives the move from studio to stage.

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