This shift in programming is temporary to accommodate the reality of professional dance, and it returns us as reality always does to the phrase we can’t say enough: strength and conditioning professionals working with dancers must always be dancer specific, but not necessarily dance specific. Dance specific suggests that two ballet dancers have the same needs, but as we’ve seen repeatedly the needs of two dancers working through different choreography or with vastly different physical concerns require individual training program variation, perhaps especially during the performance season.

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