Tips 4 Dancers

I am so excited to present my final project in four weeks. I am designing a website called Tips 4 Dancers which will detail ways for dancers to take care of their own bodies ad it will have a link for studio owners to participate in the project. 

At the moment, I have three dance studios participating in the project.  To participate all they have to do is allow their dancers and teachers to take a survey and in return I will give them access to hidden pages on the website. There they can view the results of their surveys and add new data as the years pass on. 

I believe my website can help a lot of dancers and I hope to see my project grow as the years pass by.

Survey Time

This week I start surveying dance studios around the valley. I am super excited. I have worked with my internship, school mentor, and dance instructor to make sure these surveys give informative results. I am hoping I will see a couple of trends the first being that dance injuries raise when the students begin rehearsing for long hours. I know at my studio when we have a performance deadline on the rise we focus on learning the choreography rather than stretching. I'll admit I am irresponsible and I do not stretch on my own, but I know I'm not the only dancer who only stretches in class. Rehearsal weeks are the weeks dancers need to be stretching the most. Our bodies work hours their not used too and without the proper warm up our muscles get overused and tense up which leads to more injuries. I also expect that dancers do not tell their instructors about every injury. Pain is a common aspect in dance as is it in sports and until a dancers trains to become a professional they do not learn how to treat minor injuries properly.

I will be collecting surveys for the next three weeks and are the first step to changing how injuries are treated in a recreational dance studio.