Another summer comes to a close....

We finished the NYSSSA program last Friday and wow -- what an impressive group of students!  They were so open to learning new ways of looking at things and approaching their bodies and their dancing.  I will miss them terribly.

Days were spent in the weight room doing resistance work, using the physioballs, completing circuits, and days learning about bones, muscles, and how our body moves in space..... and collecting info about our own bodies with strength testing, or skeletal assessment as seen here.......

 

In the first photo you see Katrina placing stickers on body landmarks to identify Nadya's skeleton, 

and in the second photo Bella is analyzing Gillian using the landmarks.  

It was a truly inspiring summer and we had a great time all the way through to our final day!  Here they are striking a pose -- show us your muscles dancers!!