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Dance Medicine Education Initiative (DMEI) provides a rich set of continuing education opportunities

13/08/2025

What are your go-to strategies for convincing dancers to use tape and/or padding during performances?

Drop your comments/suggestions below. We would 🧡 to hear from you!

For more information about the upcoming DMEI/ADM collaborative taping course, please visit 🔗 in BIO.

From Stability to Mobility: Progressive Taping Techniques for Dance Injuries.

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28/07/2025

🩹Taping is a tool almost every dance medicine practitioner reaches for - but using it well is a clinical skill that takes attention, practice, and dancer-specific know-how.

It’s not just about slapping on support- it’s about understanding how and why to use tape to cue movement, reinforce alignment, and support performance without getting in the dancer’s way.

🎯 The more refined your taping strategy, the more impact it can have.

💬 What’s helped you hone your taping skills over time?

I’ve been particularly working on my taping and padding techniques of the foot. Assessing and analyzing what the dancer’s foot needs in terms of optimization or suppression of mobility and how I can enhance the duality of the foot’s function while still offloading exhausted tissues has been quite the interesting challenge. Have I overcorrected? Yes! Have I undercorrected? Yes! Have I figured out the right combination. After years of practice and plenty of trial and error.

Visit 🔗 in BIO > From Stability to Mobility for more information

28/07/2025

What’s your success/failure history with taping dancers?

One of the things i’ve learned when taping the foot and ankle is to ensure I’ve considered the balance between motion suppression and motion enhancement. Lots of trial and error over the years but this is what peaks my curiosity.

29/06/2025

What a delightful evening it was! I kicked off the night savoring a fabulous kale salad perfectly paired with truffle fries and a very dirty martini at 🍸🥗 Seriously, this salad has a cult following and I was only too happy to discover it on the advice of numerous dancers. Yum, yum, yum. A huge shout out to my wonderful friend and colleague, Lindsay, Backiev for the great company. It only took us 10 months for our schedules to align since she moved to NYC to work at Seriously, where does the time go…

The night was made even more special with a champagne toast celebrating two incredible ABT Principal dancers, Hee Seo & Cory Stearns, marking their 20-year milestone with the company. Many congrats!!!🥂

I also had the pleasure of reconnecting with Julie Daugherty, whom I last saw in-person at the 2019 IADMS conference in Montreal. It’s been way too long! It was also fantastic to meet three other dance medicine PT’s: Kate Besong, Carla Foster & Natalie Farrah. Kate also works at ABT while Carla and Natalie work at 🤝💃

It was truly wonderful to have the time to step out of my little corner of the field and connect with such talented and passionate individuals. Until next time! 💫

24/06/2025

Grateful to have had the opportunity to support the event this past weekend.

A huge shout out to everyone who was involved in bringing this magical performance to life. Your dedication to is truly inspiring! 🌟❤️

21/05/2025

🩰✨LAST CHANCE to Save $50 ✨🩰

Early bird pricing for Bridging the Gap ends Saturday, May 24th at 11:59 PM ET ⏳

This event is a MUST for healthcare providers and adjunct practitioners who practice in the field of dance medicine and dance educators & staff who are ready to make a difference in eating disorder prevention and recovery.

🎟️ Save $50 before it’s gone!

🗓️ June 14th. 10 am - 1 pm Eastern (recording available to everyone for 2 wks post course)

📍Visit LINK in BIO to sign up!

Don’t wait and sign up today. We’ve got a great group signed up so far and are looking forward to adding you to the list!

Andrea & Monika

15/05/2025

🎉 Exciting news! The new DMEI specialty course is coming this June, and the buzz is building! 🎶 ✨ We’re thrilled by the fantastic feedback from practitioners, teachers, and dance administrators - your enthusiasm is fueling our excitement.

We will be covering a variety of topics including:

➡️ Why dancers are at high risk for under-fueling, eating disorders, and disordered eating and how we can reduce this risk.

➡️ Looking beyond weight: Expanding awareness of warning signs/symptoms of underfueling, eating disorder, and disordered eating.

➡️ Problematic vs protective language and messaging (both implicit and explicit).

➡️ Helping to create a more protective dance environment.

➡️ Your role in supporting a dancer in recovery (everyone can play a role in this process).

Registration is open! Early 🐥 and group discounts available.

Please visit 🔗in BIO or DM me with your questions.

Looking forward to seeing you at the course!

09/05/2025

Don’t miss out on the upcoming collaborative workshop with and .headtopointe !!!

Please read below for more information about the course.

🔗 in BIO to register.

We hope to see you there ❤️

Repost from .headtopointe
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5 Reasons why EVERY dance provider & educator needs to learn about eating disorders, disordered eating, and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs aka under-fueling):

1️⃣You care about dancers’ health

2️⃣You want dancers to dance better

3️⃣Prevention is everyone’s responsibility

4️⃣Early identification is key

5️⃣When you know better, you can do better

Ready to learn more?

💻Register for the Bridging the Gap virtual course I am offering on 6/14 with

📖Read my 📖 Nourishing Dance

🍏Book a Head to Pointe® Workshop

📧Gein touch to learn more about how we can work together

Links in bio. Happy Weekend!

18/03/2025

BOOP, BOOP, de BOOP!

Had a ton of fun seeing this show last weekend. Hubbs was home with a foot injury so I brought my dear friend Kimberly along for some fun.

Congrats to everyone who is a part of this fun show that is giving classic Broadway vibes. ❤️

12/03/2025

I had the pleasure of attending a launch of Monika Saigal’s new book, Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image and Eating Disorders at this past weekend.

This book is a nutrient-dense resource that expertly highlights the deficiency of nutrition-based education, the sociocultural influences on body image and the risk of developing eating disorders in the dance community.

A must read for anyone who employs, trains and cares for dancers.

Run, don’t walk to your computer and order your copy today. It’s such a valuable resource!!!

06/12/2024

Ahh… the calm at the end of a two show day. Cheers to all of the dance medicine practitioners who are working backstage this holiday season. Your dedication to the health and well-being of others is truly inspirational.

Wishing all of you joy, laughter & crisp, clean ankle manips this holiday season. 😄

Andrea

19/10/2024

Friday Fun Day in Anatomy at NYU: Tisch Dance!!! 😄😄👏🏻👏🏻

I’m always trying to find creative and interactive activities that will reinforce the information I present in my lectures. Today we focused on the mobility and stability of the abdominal wall. Understanding the functional requirements of this multilayered muscular cylinder can be challenging to comprehend for many dancers. Many suck in their gut or increase their infra-abdominal pressure to make this cylinder rigid to find stability, which doesn’t support fluid movement and optimal breathing patterns.

After leading my students through a location practice exercise which included a review of origin, insertions and fiber directions using colored tape, we moved to a movement lab focused on the common and unique actions of the abdominal muscles. We then wrapped things up with a discussion and demonstration on how we can also use the abdominals to control movement and posture of the Lumbopelvic girdle.

Next week, I’m adding in the psoas followed by muscles and fascia’s of the back. Then it’s onto the “Circle of Integrity” based on the work of Diane Lee.

We had a blast including a lot of laughs which is an ab workout in itself. 😂

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