Hazards in dance

Ineffective personal health regime

• Lack of a to a regular, fitness-specific exercise to protect your body from injury. Exercises need to be appropriate to your gender and age, and you need to do enough warm-up and cool-down procedures (e.g. gentle stretch, aerobic and anaerobic exercises).
• Inadequte nutrition and diet.
• Exceeding your body’s limitations for alignment, flexibility (mobility), strength (stability), and endurance (cardiorespiratory and muscular). In particular, excess intensity in your exercise regime, for example, over the maximum capacity of the kind of exercise (measured by heart rate or number of repititions, or in specifc periods of time).
• Ignoring any particular health implications.
• Risks of muscular and skeletal injury due to misaligning your exercise regime.
• Feet problems.
• Repetitive movement and fatigue.
• Neglecting breathing exercises.
• Inappropriate clothing (footwear, too-tight clothing).
• Poor lifting techniques.
• Incorrect execution of steps and incorrect sequencing of dance movements.

Your venue and you

• Poorly maintained equipment (e.g. barres and mirrors.)
• Indequate lighting, heating and air-conditioning.
• Flooring that is too hard or too slippery. (Dance floors are usually sprung softwood, tarkett, sprung parquet, or tongue and groove hardwood.)

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