Injury Prevention For Street Dancers (IPS)

Class Description: Moderate to severe back or joint pain commonly plague street dancers, and medical intervention often provides only a temporary fix.  Longevity is born from consistency and awareness, not intensity. The Happy Body principles, devised by Olivia O’Hare based on decades of work and research in a broad spectrum of exercise systems (e.g. contemporary Pilates, the Franklin Method, and various Somatics practices), teach how to incorporate movements for injury prevention into your personal and pedagogical practice. This workshop introduces the principles through a brief discussion followed by exploration through structured improvisation. Additionally, an hour-long flow sequence designed in collaboration with Rennie Harris covers the fundamental movements directly applicable to street dance, including sensing/embodiment, shaking, spiraling, strengthening, and stretching. By the end of the workshop, you’ll understand how to train smarter, not harder, and how to warm-up for dancing with less potential for injury and pain.

Bio: Olivia realized early…