🔹“Brave women are not born from comfort zones. They are made in the fire“🔹
🖊️ Cheryl Hale
🎶 @afri.caine - bloodclaat 💎
🎥 @iamsarafranceschini 🩵
DC choreo by me
👣 much respect to all dancehall creators
#dancehall #dancehallchoreo #dancehallswitzerland #dancehallzurich #dancer #dance #soulfood #bravewomen #happysunday
🩸judge demo @jdsevents 🩸
Big thanks to @joze_ds for the invitation & for the whole team for taking such good care of me. Un grand merci to the judges team @dhafakato@nita_swissdhq for the great vibes such a pleasure to reconnect again. Huge congrats to @talioste for the win🏆 & most of all big up all the dancehall dancers who were there🔥💯🫶
🗣️ shoutout to my dance fam you already know 🖤
🎶 @sicovox & @bradbraxtondj - more badness
🎥 @niara_s
#judgedemo #dancehall #jdsevents #dancehalldaily #dancehallzurich #dancehallswitzerland #dancing #dancereel #danceevent #dancers #dancehallbattle#grateful
Injuries in dance aka survival of the fittest?
What have dancers of pretty much any background in common? Injuries, yes you’re right. But why is that so? Let’s have a look at some facts & figures. According to Füger, X. et al. 2018:
•Every 2nd dancer suffers at least 1 work accident per season, every 3rd accident includes an inability to work (depending on the style of dance)
•Chronic or overload injuries occur 3-5x as often as traumatic injuries
•In educations injury incidences increase usually before 9:00 a.m.,after the 6th working hour & generally on mondays
Now what can cause these injuries?
•Insufficient physical preparation during pre-season
•Chronic fatigue by the end of the season (contemporary dancers: Aug-June)
•No deload phases
•High frequency of performances (-> increased rehearsal volume)
•Usually to short breaks during the day (-> reduced nutrition intake)
(Füger, X. et al. 2018)
Knowing that what can we as dancers do to reduce our own injury rate? Besides planning daily breaks & generally adding deload phases, absolute key would be pre-season preparation. Meaning at some point during the year carving time out to physically prepare our bodies through strength & conditioning training, for the daily loads we have to handle.
It‘s fascinating how it’s common sense for everyone that basketball, NFL, soccer players, you name it, physically prepare their bodies in the gym. But interestingly enough many dancers still feel like simply dancing is physical preparation enough. Even when keeping in mind that during jumps the achilles tendon for example needs to withhold loads up to ten times the own body weight (O’Brien, M. 2005). Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying adding physical preparation phases is easy. All I’m saying is that we dancers have loads like any other athlete & we need to be aware of that. Since we don’t have typical seasons in many dance styles, we have to find creative solutions in the planning of our physical preparation. Are you in? Let‘s figure it out together 🤜💛🤛
📷: @marina.visualvibes.photography
#dance #dancer #dancersareathletes #physicalpreparation #athleticcoach #strengthandconditioning #athletictraining #skilllab
Dance specific strength & conditioning @skilllab.ch@debbieze with @keiserfitness.ch machines bringing out the best in me.
Grateful for every step that makes me stronger — inside and out.
In my fav. @on gear
#DreamOn #OnAmbassador #MovementForChange
DAH VIBE YAH🧪♨️🔥
Thanks again guys for coming out🙌🏿🫶🏿
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. gratitude is a must 🙌🏿🫶🏿 @debbieze & @iamsarafranceschini@mazarine___
#sopreme #blazzaz #dancehall #zurich
„behind every strong woman is a story that gave her no choice 🦋“
🎶 @karun.i.verse - reason 💎
🖊️ @girlsbuildingempires
📹 @silvankung 🙏
👣 choreo by me - much appreciation to all the dancehall step creators🩵
#dancehall #dancehallswitzerland #dancehallchoreo #dancehallzurich #soulfood
🎶..and to live is to love my life..🎶
To the whole tuesday team thank you for this beautiful evening❤️🔥 & to @ilonahildebrand & @dance_to.life for sharing this moment together🔥
🎥 @bbouncyy 🖤
🎶 @zionfoster - oluwa
💃🏼 choreo @debbieze dancers @ilonahildebrand@dance_to.life
📍 offdance - dancehall tuesdays 18:30-20:30 sharing the classes with dear @iamsarafranceschini
🇯🇲 much appreciation to all the step creators
#dancehall #dancehallclass #dancehallswitzerland #tuesdayteam
🎓✨ Ein neuer Abschnitt beginnt.
Mit grosser Freude ist die erste Ausbildungs- und Weiterbildungsklasse unserer Studiengänge im Dance Education Department der Joy of Dance Academy gestartet.
Dieses Reel gibt dir einen Einblick in einen unserer Intensive Workshop Days – ein Tag voller Tiefe, Qualität und künstlerischer Entwicklung mit Nadine Farago-Sieber, Jochen Heckmann und Debbie Zehnder.
Drei Styles. Drei Persönlichkeiten. Ein gemeinsames Ziel: Wachstum im Tanz.
🎭 Bühne frei für deine Zukunft.
Der nächste Studienstart ist im September 2026.
Unsere drei Studiengänge:
Stage Dance Education · Commercial Performance Studies · Advanced Teaching Studies.
Workshops ermöglichen dir einen authentischen Einblick in Training und Atmosphäre und bereiten dich gezielt auf das Aufnahmeverfahren vor.
👉 Jetzt informieren & reinschnuppern.
Link in Bio.
#joyofdance #joyofdanceacademy #DanceEducationDepartment #tanzausbildung #weiterbildung switzerland welovetodance
Recently I’ve been reminded again how quickly life can change. That time is never promised & tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Yet here I am, given another day. So I’m choosing to live fully & with purpose, to honor those no longer with us & holding close the precious gift of being alive🤍
🎶 tuff times - @cina_soul
📹 @silvankung 🖤
👣 much appreciation to all the step creators 🇯🇲
#dancehall #dancehallswitzerland #dancehallchoreo #tothosewelost #lifeisapreciousgift
It’s wild how fast life moves - still processing 2025. Building a more sustainable future for dancers together is at the heart of it all❤️🔥 Pausing to reflect with gratitude for the opportunities, lectures & meaningful collaborations that continue to unfold🙏 Much appreciation to all of you🫶 We keep building, one step at a time✨
•1 warm-up, sleep & mindset boosters @ivangi_moveanddance
•2&3 recovery, sleep & stress management lecture @zhdkdance & @tanzakademiezuerich
•4&5 my first keynote speech „Wege zur nachhaltigen Leistungsentwicklung im Tanz“ @ewz.energie
•6 podcast interview: strength & conditioning for dancers @plattformfreakidz
•7&8 GROW sessions @swissacademygroup basel & zurich
•9 on site physio for the musical cast @theater11@skilllab.ch
•10 on site physio with @skilllab.ch@swissbreaking championships
•11&12 the last strength & conditioning sessions & physio coachings with the lovely @flyadelics@tanzwerk101_education before the closing of their bachelor program in dance
The last picture sums it up perfectly😄🫶
#lectures #dancemedicine #strengthandconditioningfordancers #dancersareathletes #buildingabetterfuturetogether
