Another way of saying all of this is that we’re trying to help dancers avoid “majoring in the minors.” Big, athletic movements and big, full-body lifts are the majors. Those are the priorities during any given workout. The assistance movements—the “minors” in the coined phrase—are important but shouldn’t be done first when the dancer is freshest because that would limit a dancer’s ability to perform the big movements (the majors).

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