Most people believe that in order to dance, a good ear for rhythm and stretching allows a dancer to gracefully land on pointe or, launching into a jump. What they fail to realize is that dance requires an ability to carry your full body weight when doing pointe work, and reliance when leaping feet in the air into your partner’s arms. Though stretching helps with flexibility, stamina and endurance are necessary tools which help the dancer as much as it helps a tennis player. The physical demands of dance are just as stressful on the body as tennis is on the arms, or soccer on the
Most people believe that in order to dance, a good ear for rhythm and stretching allows a dancer to gracefully land on pointe or, launching into a jump. What they fail to realize is that dance requires an ability to carry your full body weight when doing pointe work, and reliance when leaping feet in the air into your partner’s arms. Though stretching helps with flexibility, stamina and endurance are necessary tools which help the dancer as much as it helps a tennis player. The physical demands of dance are just as stressful on the body as tennis is on the arms, or soccer on the