Your conditioning may be de-conditioning you!

Often enough in the performance world we hear the words flexibility and mobility used interchangeably. Let’s face it they’ve become a bit of a buzz word. We readily use these words in multiple conversations about what a class focus will be, why we feel so tight, why we feel in pain, why we can’t reach specific positions or why we don’t have a desired range of motion. The exhaustion of these buzzwords in our industry has created a fog around what it is exactly each word stands for and what each word entails.

Conditioning goes beyond being fit enough to deliver a good performance. The combination of conditioning in your dance classes along with conditioning through outside training influences how your body will behave when faced with the particular demands each show brings.

As performers their bodies are their tools to voice out the particularities of life we must accept and love, and create a new collective ground where variability of identities are celebrated not vilified.