Did you know?
Maintaining good physical condition significantly reduces the risk of injury. It’s essential to continue training even during performance periods and throughout proper rehabilitation. Our workshop blends scientific insight with practical application to show how regular physical activity supports both the body and the professional demands of dance. We’ll also explore the key elements of optimal physical condition—such as fitness, injury prevention, ease of movement, and artistic freedom.
We will cover:
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Targeted physical activities for dancers of all disciplines
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How fitness improves dance performance
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Simple exercises to build strength, flexibility, and endurance
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Practical tools to reduce injury risk and support long-term physical health
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Periodisation
Mediators :
Emeric Rabot is a French multidisciplinary dancer trained at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium, Emeric has collaborated with various choreographers in Belgium and Switzerland. He regularly teaches for companies and dance institutions in Switzerland and abroad. His workshop FULL focuses on expressivity, fitness and floor work in various theatre and dance institutions. He is the founder of Danse Sans Frontieres, a platform promoting art, social and science transcontinental
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Did you know?
Maintaining good physical condition significantly reduces the risk of injury. It’s essential to continue training even during performance periods and throughout proper rehabilitation. Our workshop blends scientific insight with practical application to show how regular physical activity supports both the body and the professional demands of dance. We’ll also explore the key elements of optimal physical condition—such as fitness, injury prevention, ease of movement, and artistic freedom.
We will cover:
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Targeted physical activities for dancers of all disciplines
-
How fitness improves dance performance
-
Simple exercises to build strength, flexibility, and endurance
-
Practical tools to reduce injury risk and support long-term physical health
-
Periodisation
Mediators :
Emeric Rabot is a French multidisciplinary dancer trained at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium, Emeric has collaborated with various choreographers in Belgium and Switzerland. He regularly teaches for companies and dance institutions in Switzerland and abroad. His workshop FULL focuses on expressivity, fitness and floor work in various theatre and dance institutions. He is the founder of Danse Sans Frontieres, a platform promoting art, social and science transcontinental projects. He supervises the socio-artistic project Bewegungsraum Kulturen, which for the past three years has been offering intergenerational dance sessions at Zurich's federal asylum center. He teaches dance for health in Berne and Zürich, with the aim of making dance accessible to all. Emeric holds an MAS in Dance Science from the University of Berne and focuses his research on disciplines that improve performance and well-being, such as breathwork.
Joelle Dumas is a Swiss dancer, choreographer and dance scientist trained at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri, Tanzwerkstatt/Konstanz and UniBe, Joëlle has been teaching dance-theatre for 25 years in her dance school and is actively involved in mediation in Switzerland, among other things with Médiation Danse CH and the national project Reso Danse & École. In 2019, she set up the collectif PERSONA GRATA, which brings together artists from a wide range of backgrounds for choreographic co-creation projects and mediation events.
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