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New App Helps Dancers Locate Specialist Healthcare and Advice

Dance Longer Dance Stronger announces the launch of a new app designed especially to enable performers to locate - at the touch of a button – a range of specialist healthcare and reliable resources, right across the UK. The Performers Health Hub app brings together the most up-to-date information about dance specific healthcare, both private and NHS, together with reliable, evidence-based resources in an easy to use format. The app has been developed in response to the high injury rate among dancers and the lack of time available due to the nature of their work, to conduct thorough research in locating top quality healthcare. Around 80% of all dancers will suffer an injury each year through training, rehearsal of performance* [...]

First fully registered University Provider

We are pleased to announce we have another new registered provider to tell you all about - From the 13th March 2017 the first fully registered University Provider; Coleg Sir Gar in partnership with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David will be providing the Healthy Dancer Certificate as part of their BA Dance Course. The Healthy Dancer Certificate allows individual dancers, working in any genre or style to show how their own practice is informed by healthy dance principles. It deals with you as a dancer, in training or as a professional, maintain your unique dancing body in order to optimize your performance and minimise the risk of injury. You will increase your awareness of how the body works [...]

Photograph of Hanna Etlin-Stein, Registered Provider of Safe in Dance International, SiDI

New Registered Provider – CANADA

Hannah Etlin-Stein is a Toronto based dance science consultant, Pilates and Strength and Conditioning coach. She completed her BFA in Dance from York University in 2010, and following that taught dance technique and creative dance movement in a studio setting. Hannah then completed a Masters degree in Dance Science from Trinity Laban. She has worked as an associate lecture at Buckinghamshire New University and Middlesex University and guest lectured at University of Roehampton and University of Suffolk. Hannah focuses her work on supplementary training for dancers and posture and alignment with a focus on the use of imagery and visualization. She has worked with athletes and dancers in the UK and Canada from recreational to professional levels developing training programs [...]

Download our Flyer in French Here

In the light of our new partnership with Healthy Dancer Canada and an increasing interest in our certification in France, we have translated our flyer into French and it is now available to download here. Thank you Agathe DuMont, our intern in 2015, who also helped us with this. [...]

NEWS – New Partnership – Healthy Dancer Canada, The Dance Health Alliance of Canada

We are delighted to announce an exciting new partnership with Healthy Dancer Canada. Together we will work towards our aligned missions to improve safe, effective and healthy dance practice among the dance community, healthy professionals and researchers. Since the announcement of our partnership, there has been much interest in the Healthy Dance Certificates in Canada. Both HDC and our two registered providers in Canada are working to promote the work that we both do. Maggie Morris of SiDI said “ We are so thrilled to be announcing this new partnership, we know the good work of Healthy Dance Canada and are looking forward working with them.” Andrea Downie, President Healthy Dancer Canada said "Healthy Dancer Canada (HDC) and Safe In [...]

Dancer health and safety. Applying knowledge early to help forge a long-lasting career

One Dance UK's magazine includes an article written by one of our own; Maggie Morris. The physical benefits and career advantages of healthy dance practice are becoming increasingly understood by every sector of the dance community in the UK. If you can't get your hands on a copy of the magazine you can see the full article in the attached pdf, let us know what you think. One Dance UK_One Issue 1 p45 If you do not get the One Dance UK magazine and live in the UK you can become a member. One Dance UK is the national voice for the dance profession. It aims to improve the conditions in which dance is created, performed and experienced. When you [...]

Sharon Watson talks about SiDI Partner Maggie Morris

Sharon Watson, Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, talks about SiDI Partner Maggie Morris in an articles about her ‘ Gurus”. To read the article visit: http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/my-gurus-sharon-watson/sharon-watson [...]

Congratulations

Congratulations to our intern Sutton Anker who graduated last week from TrinityLaban with her MSc in Dance Science. [...]

New Years CPD Opportunity! Book now while there are still places.

Booking is now open for Charlotte Tomlinson ‘s annual Healthy Dance Practice Course . Charlotte is co – author of Safe Dance Practice - An Applied Dance Science Perspective which was published earlier this year and has already sold out its first print run. For more information click here Congratulations to our intern Sutton Anker who graduated last week from TrinityLaban with her MSc in Dance Science. [...]

Safe Dance Practice

NEW OUT Safe Dance Practice: an applied dance science perspective - written by Edel Quin, Sonia Rafferty and Charlotte Tomlinson. The authors are all members of our SIDI team. This book is the first of its kind and covers all aspects of the Healthy Dance Practice Certificates. Available to order at Human Kinetics [...]

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