Dancing Longer, Dancing Stronger: A Dancer's Guide to Improving Technique and Preventing Injury

by Andrea Watkins and Priscilla Clarkson

Book Overview

Featuring ballet, jazz, modern, and aerobic, this book includes exercises to complement in-class work or to enhance performance. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916622983
• ISBN13: 9780916622985
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Princeton Book Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Must-read for every dancer and parent of a dancer

This book is the most comprehensive guide to the physiology of dancing. It answers important questions about what is normal and what can cause problems. It also deals with correcting technique problems and preventing injuries by proper strengthening exercises. It covers the entire body from head to toe. In my opinion every dance teacher should read this book so they can responsibly develop young dancers. This book should be reprinted --- anyone who dances should read it and keep it handy as a valuable resource.

You don't have to be a dancer to love this book!

Dancing Longer, Dancing Stronger is for anyone who desires to understand their body and how to make it work more effectively. Along with detailed anatomical descriptions of all the bones and muscles in the body and how they interact, are exercises for both strengthening and lengthening each muscle set. You don't have devote a fortune in expensive equipment or a large amount of time doing repetive, boring movement. Suggestions in the Question and Answer sections help you define your structural weaknesses and suggest exercises within the program for overcoming them. Plus you never have to count past 8! Each exercise is done to one of four 8 count rhythms with most exercises being either 4 or 8 reptitions each. As a figure skater, this book has provided me with the best off-ice training I've found to date. Even my coach wants a copy!