Building Sustainable Dancers
Building Sustainable Dancers is a Summer program developed in a partnership between NDC and P3 Precision Physical Therapy & Pilates. P3 is an first-class rehabilitation and exercise clinic with years of experience working alongside dance artists and movement athletes of all ages and abilities.
Pilates is one of the most highly recommending cross-training activities for injury prevention and core-strengthening for dancers.
Physical Therapy is necessary for injury recovery and sports medicine education in a high-impact and physically demanding Art like dance.
Both are typically unaffordable on the income of a typical professional dancer, student, or post-professional.
BSD started bringing accessible (free!) Pilates and PT classes to pre, current, and post professional dance and movement artists ages 16+ to the Nashville metro community in the Summer of 2023.
In future series, NDC hopes to source other somatic practices (such as yoga and gyrokinesis), as well as increase the accessibility of PT workshops by bringing them directly into local studios and companies!
Pelvic health specialist Katie Lakoff leads dancers through PT exercises.
Four BSD participants flow through some Pilates leg work on the reformer.
Pilates instructor Bri Razo guides a dancers' technique on the Pilates reformer.
Physical Therapist and Pilates instructor Jeannie Newton assists a dancer in setting up for the next exercise.
Jeannie demonstrates a PT exercise while providing materials and notes for the dancers to incorporate in their own practice.
Three dancers are guided through arm and core Pilates exercises.
Three dancers focus intensely on their Pilates exercise.