Elemental Dance Technique
Elemental Dance Technique is a new and completely one of a kind technique system intended to train dancers and create a foundation that is safe and sustainable to the body. It is offered as an alternative to ballet as a foundation for all other dance forms. Elemental Dance Technique eliminates any movement that compromises joints, muscles, and connective tissue in order to prepare dancers to be strong, healthy, flexible and balanced to dramatically decrease injury, and prepare dancers that can dance at a high level of technique throughout their life, instead of burning them out by age 30.
Governing principles of new technique:
- Flexibility and motion of the spine
- Strength in the core – including the back, lower and upper abdominals, and lower back
- Range of motion balanced with conditioning
- Conditioning/movement/choreography should utilize opposing muscles in all areas of the body – creating BALANCE
- Avoid overloading the knees and ankles
- Parallel is base position. Work done in turned out should be balanced by work done turned in
- Body awareness, control and freedom of choices