Understanding the Dual Nature of your Feet:
Foundation and Propulsion
What does it Take to have your Students go from the
Earliest Lessons to Technical Mastery?
Proper Training that includes:
Functional Anatomy Information and Imagery
You have some missing pieces if you are continually reminding students:
- To Point their Feet
- To Stop Sickling
- To Stop Curling Toes
This 4 Hour Workshop will give you the necessary information and tools,
transforming how you Teach the Use of Feet.
Including Content On:
Design
Understand the brilliant design of the foot with the focus on how the arches contribute to both stability and mobility, allowing us to balance and leap, and everything in between dancers wish to explore.
Development
By going through the developmental phases you will discover and experience how the feet go from flat to containing the arches. And with that, specific movements to do to contribute to development for those who need it, including flat feet, tight feet and high arches that are unstable.
Dissect
Once the piece are in place, dissect how key movements and steps are either using the design of the feet or not. By ensuring true use, there is an acceleration to strengthening and injury prevention.
Here's what Maya Callaghan had to say after this workshop:
Mariah-Jane’s workshop was incredibly insightful. She opened my eyes to a truly different way of looking at the feet. The knowledge I have gained I am sure I will be able to implement in class immediately and will alter my teaching.
Your Instructor:
Mariah-Jane Thies
Mariah-Jane has been teaching dance for almost 40 years and in that time has had a personal and professional focus on feet. Her extensive complementary training outside of the dance world, has given her a unique approach for so many of the common challenges faced by dance teachers. The additional training has earned her 2024, RAD Teacher Award for Innovation in Dance.
Here are some of the things you will learn:
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How to "Load the Spring" for steps like Glissade
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Why to be more like a Helicopter than an Airplane
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The common mistake on all coupe actions
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The importance of crawling on your belly to develop your arches
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Techniques for increasing mobility of the foot and ankle
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How to release a chronically tight Achilles Tendon
