25/09/2026
Research shows that injury rates can rise significantly during the second and third months after returning to dance—right when dancers are feeling stronger, training more, and their workload begins to climb.
Now add everything that comes with the holiday season:
🎄 Nutcracker rehearsals & performances
🏆 The start of competitive season
📚 School + academics
🎭 Holiday performances
💃 Increased rehearsal and class hours
…and suddenly, the demands on a dancer’s body look very different.
The problem? Fatigue can change how the body moves, responds, and absorbs load. And when dancers are repeatedly asking the body to perform without enough capacity, recovery, or support, those small issues that were quietly building can become much harder to ignore.
For dancers, injuries are frequently overuse-related and concentrated in the lower extremity, with the foot and ankle among the most commonly affected areas.
So how do we get ahead of it?💭🤔
Join us for a FREE TEACHER CLASS focused on joint protection and injury prevention.
📆 Tuesday October 6 from 2-3 PM EST
We’ll break down movement patterns, exercises, and practical strategies teachers can incorporate into training to help dancers better manage increasing workloads and build the physical capacity they need to keep performing.
Because injury prevention shouldn’t start AFTER something hurts. Let’s prepare the dancer BEFORE the demands peak.
🎟️ FREE for teachers — join us! Comment or DM “CLASS” for a link to register!
