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Practice Dance Safety

Dance safety often involves attention to myriad minute and difficult details. This is not one of those. In dance, like in geometric proofs, there is given information that we must accept as true in order to be successful. Please treat this dance safety advice as a given:

You need to avoid falling off of the stage

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Practice Dance Safety

Dance Safety is a crucial area of study for all dancers. While it is helpful to study what techniques we want to include in our dancing, sometimes it is equally useful to determine the things we want to avoid. For instance, when landing from a jump, we want to use safe dancing technique by landing softly through our feet with our knees over our toes. We want to avoid landing on a body part that is unable to cushion our landing.

With that in mind, here is a video detailing one thing to avoid while dancing:

#1. Don’t land on your face