Your body your risk
By Dance UK
Prevention is easier than cure.
The booklet i read provides lots of suggestions for keeping healthy the key points are:
- Be the best dancer you can be. This means looking after your body, giving it enough fuel and enjoying its achievements.
- There is no absolute, ideal body shape. Different dance styles, cultures and choreographers emphasise different shapes and other qualities in their dancers.
- Don’t become obsessed with the mirror. Enjoy the physical sensation of dancing.
- Create your own performance eating plan.
- Be aware of the risks connected with disordered eating, amenorrhoea and osteoporosis and see help and advice early if you are worried.
Schools and companies
Increasingly, vocational dance schools and companies have a written policy that explains their attitude to managing eating disorders. The best ones include:
- Recognition of the risks for dancers.
- A commitment to promoting the health and well-being of their recovery.
- Issues relating to confidentiality.
Make sure you are aware of any policy that your school or company might have.
“it’s about quality and performance, not just physical shape. I’ve always been very interested in what you can do with training. It’s about being strong, fit and healthy – and making the most of the dancer you are.”
David Nixon, Artistic Director, Northern Ballet Theatre.
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