Ballet Help Desk

Dancers focus on cross-training as part of their overall ballet training regimen. But, often, they forget how much mental cross-training they need to do to maintain their emotional health. Elizabeth Sullivan, a ballet wellness coach, joins us to discuss how dancers can maintain their emotional health while dealing with the pressures of high level ballet training, especially when coming back from an injury.

Elizabeth also spends some time discussing what she would like to see change with ballet schools as it relates to how ballet schools help students with rehab and retuning to class after an injury.

For dancers who may be interested in working with Elizabeth, she partners not only with ballet schools, but also indivual dancers to help them build and maintain their mental toolkit so they can get the most out of their ballet training.

Website: www.easullivan.com

Ballet Help Desk had the pleasure of talking with Samantha Daly, a Gyrotonic and GYROKINESIS®️ teacher based in the Bay Area. Better known as Spiraling Sam, she works with professional dancers, dance students and non-dancers alike.

Join us to hear how she works with dancers on injury prevention measures as well as how she works as part of an injury revovery team.

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Please visit her website for more information about virtual classes at www.spiralingsam.com

This week, Ballet Help Desk chats with Sue McCarroll, the lead Pilates instructor for The Rock School For Dance Education. She provides advice on how Pilates can fit into a dancer's training regimen. Sue discusses not only how the practice can help with injury prevention but also with actual dance performance.

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Website: https://www.opalwellnessstudio.com/link-list

Podcast: well2you

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Cross-training. What does it mean, should my dancer be doing it and how soon should they start? Tune in to hear advice from Aki Kawasaki, Head Strength Coach at Houston Ballet and Houston Ballet Academy. Aki provides advice not only on how to build physical strength but also on how to develop the right mindset around training.

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This week, the Ballet Help Desk answers questions about how we, as dance parents, would have done things differently had we known then what we know now. We also dig into questions about the age dancers start full-time training, how to handle declining an acceptance to summer programs, as well as questions around financing ballet training.