Basic - Fitness
Your lecturer for this course:
Sayon Lincoln Taye
Wesley Collin George
Cardio*
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Normal breathing involves a shallow inhalation and an even exhalation followed by a pause before it all starts again. But when you sing, breath control means taking your breathing off autopilot. You not only need to inhale quickly and exhale slowly as you sing the phrases of a song, but you also need to maintain proper posture.
Recovery
As a dancer, it is important to take care of your body on and off the stage – especially after a performance. You might want to skip the cool-down process but make sure that you’re following a proper recovery routine to help your body heal and regain strength.
Fitness
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Today’s dancers are unfit and, more importantly, not as healthy as they could be. They are not prepared for the high level of demands made by choreographers, and juggling between school or work and their dance sessions, fitness often gets ignored or sidelined.
The training methods used for various dance movements are not enough to help dancers prepare for the more physically demanding aspects of performance.