Article: CONDITIONING Offers Ballet Students Ounce of Prevention.(strenth training prevents injuries)

YOUNG DANCERS--and the schools that train them--increasingly recognize that technique alone cannot prevent injury. Many movements demand muscular strength beyond what an hour-and-a-half technique class can build. Young dancers are adopting conditioning and strength maintenance regimens to prepare themselves for today's physically demanding choreography.

Pacific Northwest Ballet's school in Seattle typifies the emphasis on conditioning as a part of dance training. PNB faculty member Marjorie Thompson helped design the Therapy and Conditioning program at the PNB school. A former dancer with New York City Ballet, Thompson directs the conditioning program as well as ...

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