Irish dance exercises

I left the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s performance of Swan Lake at Cardiff Millennium Centre feeling elated and inspired, secretly hoping that I was not too late to start pursuing the dream of …

Improve your stamina for Irish dance in 25 minutes or less!

Improving Irish dance toe height has been on my mind! This month on the Target Training Online Institute, one of the videos to be released on April 1 is: 10 Exercises to Improve Toe Height While developing this video, I incorporated exercises that hit on the key components to improving toe height: 1. posterior chain strength - glute, hamstring, calf, bottom of foot 2. quad strength 3. ankle mobility 4. double vs. single-leg strength. I recently published an article about improving toe height

Stretching is crucial for Irish dancers to enhance flexibility, improve range of motion, and prevent injuries. Here are some effective stretching exercises tailored for Irish dancers: Remember to hold each stretch for at least 15-30 seconds and perform them in a controlled, gentle manner. Stretching should never cause pain. Incorporate these exercises into your warm-up […]

As Irish dancers, we focus so much on flexibility to get our clicks and swings high. While flexibility exercises will lengthen the soft tissue muscle group your focusing on, it does not address the bigger picture - mobilizing the working joint with control and strength. Adding mobility work to your daily Irish dance routine will transform your dancing allowing more control, strength, and flexibility through a joint's entire range of motion. I am a big fan of the work of Christopher Sommers,

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Sitting at school or work all day and playing on our phones or working on the computer has caused a bit of a problem for Irish dancers - shoulders rounding forward and head hanging down. Many dancers will try to compensate by squeezing their shoulder blades together so tightly that their ribs are sticking out, back is arched, and shoulders are pulled way back. They’ll begin their dances like this but as soon as they get to dancing, it’s nearly impossible to maintain this overextended posture

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