Haas, Jacqui Greene

"Dancers of all styles, dance instructors, and dance-specific health professionals will discover exercises to improve physical strength, balance, flexibility, and resistance to injury. The third edition features 100 exercises and variations plus updated information on brain health, psychological awareness, and return from injury. In each exercise chapter, a dance movement feature highlights the muscles used in cambr? derri?re and side, pli?, en bas, pass?, d?velopp?, relev?, and arabesque. Illustrations show the muscles worked in each exercise and dance movement. Chapters are structured by body region, including spine, ribs, core, shoulders and arms, pelvis and hips, legs, and ankles and feet. The final chapter features full-body exercises"--.

Discusses the connections between muscle development and dance, with over eighty dance, movement, and performance exercises for promoting proper breathing, placement, and alignment, and for helping with flexibility, reduction of muscle tension, and injury prevention.