Strength and Conditioning for Dancers is an accessible guide to how to design and incorporate supplemental fitness training into a dancer's schedule. It links current evidence on the relationship between physical fitness, dance performance and injury incidence, breaking it down into clear and convenient sections, starting with the fundamentals of muscle physiology and training principles and moving on to specific training components. Key topics covered in the book include: self-screening; ...

The training of elite dancers has not changed in the last 60 years; it is often only those that have survived the training that go on to have a career, not necessarily the most talented. It is time to challenge and change how we train tomorrow's professional dancers. This book brings you the reasons why and all tools to implement change.10 years ago, Matthew Wyon and Gaby Allard introduced a new pedagogical approach to training vocational dancers: Periodization. This ground-breakin...

The inaugural actions of the Brazil-United Kingdom Dance Medicine & Science Network (BRUK NET) emerged through the organization of the symposium "The Potentials and Challenges of Research in Dance Medicine & Science: building innovation collaborations between the United Kingdom and Brazil" held in Goiânia, in 2016. In this bilingual Portuguese-English book, 23 leading researchers/authors from the BRUK NET write about their experiences in this field. The idea of the book is to share part of...

As primeiras ações de fomento da Rede Brasil-Reino Unido em Medicina e Ciência da Dança (Rede BRUK em MCD) surgiram através da organização do simpósio "As Potencialidades e Desafios da Pesquisa em Medicina e Ciência da Dança: construindo colaborações entre o Reino Unido e o Brasil", realizado em Goiânia, em 2016. Convocamos neste livro escrito em português e inglês, 23 autores/pesquisadores com diferentes experiências de liderança na MCD para que escrevessem sobre suas vivências nesta área...