The Intensive Workshops allow you to focus and grow in each specific area of dance technique. Each one is delivered as a one or two day workshop, that can be taken in your area of interest. The classes typically run from 9am to 5pm, or 9am - 4pm for the two day workshops, which allows each area to be explored in greater detail and provides age appropriate progressions, modifications for injury & personal experience.
For the latest dates and locations of upcoming courses CLICK HERE or check out the individual listings at the bottom of this page.
Understanding and Managing
Hip Injuries in Dancers
For Dance Teachers and Health Professionals
Although chronic hip pain should never be a “normal thing” for young dancers, the reality is that many dancers all over the world are suffering from chronic hip pain with very little idea of what to do about it. Regular physical therapists and physiotherapists are often at a loss at what to do because of the complex nature of dance and can often only prescribe rest and recovery. We all know very well that this kind of news does not go down well at all with dancers, nor does it have a good outcome.
Hip pain and clicky hips come from a myriad of anatomical and technical faults, all of which must be identified and addressed. If these fundamental issues are not addressed in detail, the hip injury will tend to reoccur and continue to impede the dancer’s progress.
This course is specifically designed for teachers and therapists as it offers a valuable insight into the true nature of hip injuries and how best to deal with them inside and outside of the classroom. it also empowers both teachers and physio’s to work on these elements with all students to help prevent the initial symptom from becoming a full blown injury.
The full day intensive course covers:
- The common issues that lead to hip issues of all types
- Several common dysfunctions such as labral tears and clicky hips
- How to best work with these issues in class
- How to achieve both symptomatic relief and long term correction
- How to prevent these issues from occurring in other dance students
- Common dysfunctions such as labral tears and ‘clicky hips’
- Corrective exercises that students can still work through while still resting and recovering
- The early signs of injury on-set and the best ways to deal with these occurring in the dance student
- The best conditioning exercises that can be implemented into a student’s strengthening program to maintain optimal muscle firing
So, what makes this course different from other courses?
Lisa has been a dancer and has been working intensively with dance students for the past 18 years. She has an outstanding understanding of the dancer’s body and the expectations and stresses that are upon it. She has had years on invaluable hands on experience and has discovered hundreds of tips and tricks that will help you solve all of your students’ hip problems that she will share with you.
Not only do you learn the basic principles of injury, assessment and rehabilitation but you will get real hands on work including taping skills, massage technique and manual manipulations for therapists. Guided by Lisa, you will be able to confidently identify basic underlying problems and areas of tension throughout the hips and the rest of the body. Take your teaching and understanding of the dancer’s body to the next level and help your students get back to what they love doing!
This course is ideal for anyone who has students suffering from clicky hips, chronic back pain or marked restriction in mobility. It has proven to be a very helpful summary for helping us guide our own clients through their progression back to dancing in a logical and well thought out sequence. Many dancers are amazed at the wide variety of contributing factors that have been influencing their pain, but once it is laid out in a clear and easy to follow way, their rehab progresses much faster.
As with all of the two day intensives courses you will get the most out of it with a good knowledge of some of the student programs, free articles, and Level One Teacher Training course.
Some helpful resources may include:
Level One Course & Memberds Portal
Completing the 3 Day Level One Teacher Training is recommended prior to attending any of the more detailed intensive Teacher Training courses, but it is not essential. If you have yet to attend the Level One course you may sign up to our Level One Online Teacher Training Portal prior to the workshop going ahead. For further information about this, please contact us on workshops@theballetblog.com.
Level 2 Workshops
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Read moreMORE INFOOnline Flexibility Workshop: 26th-29th September, 2020
$550.00 AUDUnfortunately our popular in-person workshops are simply not possible in the current climate so the original Level 2 Flexibility Intensive course has been divided into four 4 hour sessions to allow optimal understanding of all of the content via an online virtual workshop.
Times & Dates:
- The timing of this workshop makes it perfect for the following locations: NZ, Australia, Asia & North and South America.
- To check the exact times in your location CLICK HERE
- Call #1 – Saturday 26th September, 9am – 1:15pm (Sydney, Australia)
- Call #2 – Sunday 27th September, 9am – 1:15pm (Sydney, Australia)
- Call #3 – Monday 28th September, 9am – 1:15pm (Sydney, Australia)
- Call #4– Tuesday 29th September, 9am- 1.15pm (Sydney, Australia)
What’s included:
- 4 Live Zoom Workshops – To replicate the depth of learning and personal connection we feel at the in-person course, the content will be delivered in a combination of live teaching, pre-recorded content and personal exploration.
- A comprehensive set of assessment sheets – These sheets make any future flexibility assessments easy to conduct, and to share with your colleagues.
- Access to the Level Two Members Area – This includes a library of over 100 pre- recorded videos and bite size sections of the course content for you to refer to after the live calls.
- Access to a recording of the virtual workshop –You will also be given 30 days access to the recording of the virtual workshop, ( after the virtual workshop has taken place) giving the opportunity to go over a particular part of the course in your own time.
- CEC/CPD Accreditation – After this workshop you will be emailed the CPD Accreditation Application Form for this intensive, which is designed as an overview of the four day online course in order for you to appropriately claim CPD credits with your governing body.
Strictly limited to 18 individuals so that you will have plenty of time to ask questions.
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Read moreMORE INFOOnline Pointe Intensive: 22nd-24th September, 2020
$450.00 AUDUnfortunately our popular in-person workshops are simply not possible in the current climate so the original Level 2 Pointe Intensive course has been divided into three 4 hour sessions to allow optimal understanding of all of the content via an online virtual workshop.
Times & Dates:
- The timing of this workshop makes it perfect for the following locations: NZ, Australia, Asia & North and South America.
- To check the exact times in your location CLICK HERE
- Call #1 – Tuesday 22nd September, 9am – 1:15pm (Sydney, Australia)
- Call #2 – Wednesday 23rd September, 9am – 1:15pm (Sydney, Australia)
- Call #3 – Thursday 24th September, 9am – 1:15pm (Sydney, Australia)
What’s included:
- 3 Live Zoom Workshops – To replicate the depth of learning and personal connection we feel at the in-person course, the content will be delivered in a combination of live teaching, pre-recorded content and personal exploration. These calls will be limited to just 18 individuals so that you will have plenty of time to ask questions.
- A comprehensive set of assessment sheets – These sheets make any future pre-pointe assessments easy to conduct, and to share with your colleagues.
- Access to the Level Two Members Area – This includes a library of over 100 pre- recorded videos and bite size sections of the course content for you to refer to after the workshop.
- Access to a recording of the virtual workshop –You will also be given 30 days access to the recording of the virtual workshop, ( after the virtual workshop has taken place) giving the opportunity to go over a particular part of the course in your own time.
- CEC/CPD Accreditation – After this workshop you will be emailed the CPD Accreditation Application Form for this intensive, which is designed as an overview of the four day online course in order for you to appropriately claim CPD credits with your governing body.
Strictly limited to 18 individuals so that you will have plenty of time to ask questions.
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