1. Guard Against Dance Injuries
All professional dancers know that the dance warm-up is the most important part of any dance class or performance. Dancers take great care of their bodies and understand that a dance warm-up done properly will guard against injury to their muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments. An injury to a dancer can put him out of work for quite some time or forever, as there's always someone waiting to take his place on stage.
2. Dancers Are Athletes Who Warm Up
Dance is described as a performing art, but get real--dance is a sport. Dancers are athletes, and athletes warm up before they start to play. When an athlete prepares for a game, she stretches, and that's what dancers do. The dancer's muscles become conditioned and warmed up by stretching and going through a sequence of warm-up dance movements, barre exercises, leg and foot flexes, core conditioning and breathing techniques, depending upon the style of dance she is preparing to do.
3. Aerobic Dancing
Aerobic dancing is a dancing exercise class. It's normally conducted in a gym, workout facility or even a dance studio. Like other forms of dance, it's very important you warm up the body's muscles and joints to guard against injuries. In an aerobic dance class, there is emphasis given to getting the heart rate up as well as warming up the muscles and doing the preliminary stretching. Even though the dance techniques are not as important in dance aerobics, the same importance is put on the basic warm-up and the effects it will have on the body's muscles and joints.
4. Little Dancers Warm Up Too-Too
Little dancers just starting out in the dance world have to learn the importance of the dance warm-up. They have to depend on the experience of the instructors to teach them the correct way to stretch the muscles so they're warmed up and ready to dance. Over time, they come to understand that the first thing they will do in every dance class or before a performance is to warm up.
5. The Soul of a Dancer
Dance warm-up exercises are taken seriously as the dancer brings her focus from the outside world to the dance she is about to perform. The warm-up is a time the dancer becomes one with her body and takes control of her muscles from head to toe, finger tip to finger tip. The dancer's warm-ups are more than a series of stretching exercises. I's a time for the body, the mind and the soul of the dancer to come together as one to prepare to dance.
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