Courses starting 4 January 2019 – extended closing date – book now

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To give you the opportunity to book one of the courses starting 4 January 2019 the closing date has been extended to the end of the year. So you can book until midnight on Monday, New Year’s Eve (UK time).

These short online courses are a great way to get some CPD under your belt. They offer personal feedback and in this way are tailored to your own dance teaching practice.

There are two courses available to book starting on 4 January:

Proprioception

Teaching Social and Leisure Dance

You can download an information sheet about these courses here.

You can also book other courses starting later in January and February.

Don’t forget you can sign up to follow CPD for Dance Teachers for free and get notifications when new information is added to the site. Click on the link in the sidebar.

 

 

 

Useful articles about injury risk and recovery

Here are links to a couple of articles from Dance Magazine about risk and recovery from injury. I am sure you will find them interesting.

There is a lot of good information available today about helping dancers, dance students and dance teachers to pay attention to safe dance practice and consider dancer health and wellbeing during training. Continue reading

Useful articles

_MG_0750I thought it was time to point you in the direction of some of the previous articles from cpdfordanceteachers.com.

Feet are very important for dancers (and dance teachers) so I hope you will download the Focus on Feet exercises as well as reading the article and watching the short video about alignment of the Achilles.

 

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Teaching dance to older people

This is an area of dance that I did not intentionally get involved with but I am so glad that I did. Teaching older adults became popular through the exercise and fitness arena with the groups referred to as:

  • 50 plus
  • TOFFS (The over fifty fives)
  • Golden age
  • Gold
  • Seniors
    and so on…

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Short video – Alignment of the Achilles

Below is a short video presentation to help you to develop your observation skills and understanding about the alignment of the Achilles tendon and the part of the foot called the tarsus. I trust that you will find it useful for you and your dance students.