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 for 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.
Training Turnout in Tiny Dancers
For Dance Teachers and Health Professionals
Many teachers struggle with hip pain and injuries in their adolescent dancers, but few realise how much of this stems from the training that children had in their early years. This course delves into the delicate art of training turnout in tiny dancers, through to adolescents. In conjunction with early childhood Master Teacher Beverly Spell, we explore safe ways to develop both range and control in young hips, preparing them for higher level work in the future, while having fun with creative play in the classroom. All good learning is laid down in layers; we explore what concepts need to be introduced at what ages and how to practice this in class.
This course is perfect for teachers who are looking to incorporate the right preparatory exercises into their tiny dancer classes to help them develop correctly and avoid injury in their hips.
Some students seem blessed with lots of range but lack the ability to control it, while others constantly struggle with the mobility of their hips. This makes training a group of students a constant challenge.
In this systematic and comprehensive approach to training turnout in young artists, Lisa and Beverly provide dance teachers with direct techniques to use in class to safely develop optimal range and control of motion in all dance students. This program begins by establishing strength and control in parallel, before adding on the control of rotation, which is hugely important in the long term health of dancers’ hips. Using elements of fun and creative play to bring scientific and detailed training programs into dance schools is a unique and effective way to help thousands of young students worldwide.
We believe that at younger ages, children should be playing and exploring the full movement of their bodies. Pushing them into ballet class at a young age and not letting them do anything else is a way to diminish all natural movement and lower their body awareness. Climbing trees and swimming, for example, are great ways for them to train the diagonal fascial lines that run through their body which will help them later in their careers once they start performing more dynamic movements.
This course is perfect for teachers who are looking to incorporate the right preparatory exercises into their tiny dancer classes to help them develop correctly and avoid injury in their hips.
During this course, we aim to train teachers to work with their tiny dancers by exploring:
- Visualisation and pretend play
- The physical development of young students
- The importance of crawling
- Anatomical variations and other factors that may affect physicality
- Safe stretches for young dancers
We then look at a 6 stage program designed for students aged 4-8 to gradually prepare them for the demands of dance training. This includes:
- Encouraging natural development of core stability
- Sustained balance on one leg
- Awareness of rotation from the hip
- Cross BODY patterning
- Introduction of more formed ballet
- Maintaining turnout through movement
New Online Video Training Coming in 2020!
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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