Conditioning
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Schedule: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 3-3:20pm
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Instructor: Kate Feinberg Robins
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Course Description
Proper alignment, strength, and flexibility are key to improved performance in dance, martial arts, and sports, as well as healthy everyday living. Students with all levels of strength and flexibility are welcome—we adapt each exercise to give each individual a challenge within their abilities.
Each 20-minute session consists of strengthening isolations, stretching isolations, and application to full body movements. We target one muscle group at a time in order to focus on details of proper alignment, observe progress in one area before moving on, and firmly establish good habits that can then be applied to full body movements.
Over the course of the year, we focus on each of six muscle groups: neck & shoulders; wrists, hands & arms; back, obliques & abdominals; pelvis & hips; thighs & knees; calves, ankles & feet. Students may take the entire year-long course, or may join the class during a specific 7-week term to address a muscle group of interest.
The target full body movements for each term are drawn mostly from ballet, capoeira, and Spanish dance. No prior experience in these areas is required. However, students wishing to improve performance on a specific movement are encouraged to review the schedule below and join us for a 7-week term.
Each 20-minute session consists of strengthening isolations, stretching isolations, and application to full body movements. We target one muscle group at a time in order to focus on details of proper alignment, observe progress in one area before moving on, and firmly establish good habits that can then be applied to full body movements.
Over the course of the year, we focus on each of six muscle groups: neck & shoulders; wrists, hands & arms; back, obliques & abdominals; pelvis & hips; thighs & knees; calves, ankles & feet. Students may take the entire year-long course, or may join the class during a specific 7-week term to address a muscle group of interest.
The target full body movements for each term are drawn mostly from ballet, capoeira, and Spanish dance. No prior experience in these areas is required. However, students wishing to improve performance on a specific movement are encouraged to review the schedule below and join us for a 7-week term.
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to strengthen and stretch target muscle groups in class and on their own.
- Students will be able to perform target full body movements with increased stability and mobility.
Winter Term: January 8-March 3, 2018
Health Focus--Neck & shoulder tension is a common result of stress and of sitting for long periods. Use targeted strengthening and stretching exercises to increase awareness and address this tension as soon as it occurs.
Capoeira Focus--The neck & shoulders must be stable & mobile to support headstands, handstands, and other inverted movements.
Ballet & Spanish Dance Focus--Neck & shoulder mobility are essential for the beautifully stylized upper body movements that make heads turn. Neck mobility and shoulder stability enable dancers to spot effectively in pirouettes and turns.