When you make your living in the world of dance, you expect to work hard. You expect to sweat, and to put in long hours in class and rehearsal. You expect to be exhausted. You expect to be in pain… 

 ~ Wait, what? Expect to be pain? ~ 

Well, yes. We are taught from our earliest training to overlook discomfort and pain. We even kind of believe it’s a virtue to dance through all kinds of injuries. Somehow it proves our personal strength… 

The problem is, pain and discomfort are messages – messages telling us that something is awry. Constantly pushing past pain is clearly not respecting your instrument. 

What if the pain level we live with isn’t necessary?  
What if it isn’t actually helping you dance, or teach, or choreograph better?  
What if the no-pain-no-gain attitude is actually an OBSTACLE to dancing or teaching better?  

I’m not saying that injuries aren’t real, or that after dancing hard for hours, days, years, you won’t have any damage. I’m not saying you don’t have to push yourself in learning new skills or new choreography.

Quite the contrary. 

I’m saying that it’s POSSIBLE to be in less pain, to HONOR the messages from your body, AND do what you love at your HIGHEST LEVEL.  

How? Through learning to listen to the details of your body and your movement, getting to know your actual structure and movement capacities more deeply, and by letting your nervous system do its job with less interference from obsolete patterns, habits and expectations. 

This is how I use my expertise in dance technique and the Feldenkrais Method to help dancers.  

In my classes, workshops, or private coaching, you will learn how to move through classes, rehearsals and performances with more ease. This work improves your technique, artistry, and endurance, by helping you learn to learn more efficiently. Through spending time attending to the details of your movement and structure, you can shed habits, and find new joy in dance or teaching. You get to be YOU, dancing.  

Isn’t it time to shift the narrative? With so much upheaval in our art form and our world, let’s improve dancers’ inner resources - for our art form and our audiences!