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You wish train like a classical dancer ? To do this, you must explore the different facets of the discipline and understand its challenges and its benefits! How to warm up correctly, why stretch, how to gain flexibility, etc. We tell you everything.
Classical dance training, whether in class or at home, is done in the same way. You should start with a warm-up, a stretch and work on your flexibility.
The objective of overall training in classical dance is to prepare the body for practice. Indeed, like any sport, classical dance requires a certain physical condition that it is necessary to work as well as a certain rigor.
The training also aims to maintain what you have learned and thus get your body used to maintaining the same physical condition. This is particularly an issue for the flexibility of the body which can easily disappear without training.
There classic dance is a discipline that requires a lot of rigor and of work. If you do not wish to embark on the practice, several alternatives are available to you, in particular the practice of ground bar.
The ground bar is directly from classical dance by its history. In fact, the floor bar was invented by the ballet master Boris Kniaseff during the opening of his dance school. Its building being classified monument, he was unable to hang the bars intended for training dancers. He had to find an alternative solution and therefore decided to move the exercises to the floor, without using the bar.
This practice subsequently developed and convinced many people. Thus, since the 1940s, the bar method has become available in several versions such as the workou bart, there classic floor bar, there contemporary floor bar, etc.
To find out more about the floor bar and its benefits, see our article on the subject.
First of all, you must put yourself in optimal conditions to start your training and promote good mastery of each movement that you are going to achieve. We'll explain how!
A good sports session begins above all with a well dressed ! The more comfortable and comfortable you are in your clothes, the more you will be free from each of your movements. Indeed, clothing that allows you to achieve the range of movements in complete freedom and especially in classical dance is essential!
You will be led to work on your flexibility and all of your muscles. So choose elastic, breathable and comfortable clothing. However, do not take too loose sports clothes which may not be practical.
Also avoid cotton which is a material that is known to absorb and retain perspiration. A cotton t-shirt will therefore not make your skin breathe and you will feel wet throughout your workout.
Finally, don't do your training anywhere and anyhow. Put yourself in a conducive environment, with a ground sheet, THE material what you need,water and an towel to dry yourself if necessary. The main thing is that you feel good!
The warm-up is used to increase heart rate of your body and thus prepare it for the effort that will be made immediately afterwards. This way, you reduce the risk of injury and train your body for the future. We tell you more!
Warming up your body and muscles is a practice obligatory before starting your sports session, all sports combined. This allows to fight against muscle and ligament injuries which can happen during the sports session. This is because you warm your body, your muscles and your joints.
Warming up can also have the benefit ofimprove the practice of your sport. In the case of classical dance, it is ideal for flexibility because when your body is warmed up, it warms up and you can therefore benefit from maximum muscle elasticity.
For warm up the right way, Several options are available to you :
If you don't know which exercise is best for you, try first one then the other Or do both for an effective all-in-one warm-up!
To learn more about the classical dance warm-ups, read our dedicated article!
It's important to do not confuse stretching and warm-ups. Indeed, as seen previously, the aim of warm-ups is to increase the heart rate and warm up the body. Stretching, for its part, aims tostretch joints and muscles to make the body more flexible. We tell you more about stretching.
THE stretching have the objective to stretch and relax the muscles with the aim of making the more flexible muscles and joints. You can do stretches before or after your sports session, while always listening to your body.
Before your session, stretching aims to prepare the muscles for exercise by stretching them. In the case of stretching at the end of the session after exercise, this allows you to gain flexibility and mobility.
For classical dance, stretching is almost obligatory to increase flexibility but also for promote good posture. The posture must be impeccable in classical dance to provide the required elegance. The spine and head posture must be perfect!
Good to know : Stretching is not definitely recommended in the sports requiring strength and speed such as running, tennis, golf, etc. They can even be the cause of a decreased athletic capacitye because due to the lengthening of the muscle fiber, the muscles do not absorb shock well. |
There are upper body stretches and lower body stretches which will therefore only target certain parts.
Stretching upper body, which allow you to gain grace, can be for example:
Stretching for lower body, to work on your muscular range and flexibility, can be for example:
To learn more about the stretching in classical dance, check out our article!
Directly linked to the stretching, THE flexibility work is one of the very foundations of classical dance. Without this work, you will not be able to be flexible enough to perform the different dance steps and your rigor will not be sufficient to excel in the discipline.
Work on your flexibility is very important in classical dance. Indeed, without flexibility, the execution of steps and choreographies can quickly become complicated.
So, the more flexible you are, the more you will feel daily benefits. Flexibility allows in particular muscle recovery faster. This is notably due to blood circulation which is more easily achieved.
In addition, thanks to the flexibility, tension in muscles and joints is relieved. This helps reduce the risk of injury.
Finally, good flexibility also allows gain performance through range of motion work. Thus, flexibility allows you to take care of your health on a daily basis, and not only during your training and within the framework of your discipline.
There flexibility is not limited only to the flexibility of the legs, especially the splits. Flexibility obviously concerns the whole body and it is precisely by working on whole body that you will observe real changes in the practice of your favorite sport.
There are a large number of exercises for gain flexibility on all parts of the body:
You would like to inquire and have more details on flexibility exercises ? Our article will answer your questions!
To become a true prima ballerina, training is absolutely essential. However, even if you don't plan to become a dancer, it can be beneficial to take up classical dancer training!
First start by putting yourself in good conditions for your workout :
Then you need to move on to thewarming up to prepare your body for dance practice:
Stretching can be done before or after physical exertion. For classical dance, before and after are good times! Their objectives will be to work intensively on your flexibility and so promote the execution of all movements dance that you will be required to do.
Finally, the flexibility work, closely linked to stretching, is one of the foundations of classical dance practice. However, it doesn't stop at the splits! You must therefore do several exercises to make all of your joints more flexible, which will allow you to gain grace and mobility.
The courses of classic dance have always had a certain resonance in you but you have never dared to take the plunge? It's not too late to get started...in a different way!
At the house of Studio POSES, we do Barre Flow, which is a workout inspired by the floor bar method. You work muscle strengthening and flexibility on playlists personalized by our coaches.
Come and discover this new way of doing sport, in the format of 50 minutes of workout in the dark and play of light.
By working on your muscles and flexibility, you will gain mobility, strength and fluidity throughout your body.
Meet at heart of the Marais in our studio POSES and discover our world to escape during your session.
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POSES Studio Paris – Yoga, Pilates, Barre
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POSES Studios
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studios
POSES Studio Paris – Yoga, Pilates, Barre
21 Rue des Filles du Calvaire, 75003 Paris
POSES Studios
6 rue de l’échquier, 75010 Paris
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