Flexibility is something that
needs to be attained at a young age while your muscles and bones are still
growing. You can help shape and form them as they grow but this gets harder the
older you get and the less you stretch. Also, if you do not keep a consistent
stretch regimen you will lose a lot of the flexibility you gained within 1
week. You could dance 10 hours a week and work on nothing but leaps and kicks
but if you are not stretching and gaining more flexibility it will all be for
nothing. Your dance skills will remain the same for years unless you become
more flexible.
We feel lack of flexibility
is holding back our dancers from moving to that next level. We will be bringing
in a Stretch specialist to company classes and will also hopefully be starting
a stretch class. This contest is open to
ALL studio dancers!
We feel so strong about this
that we will be doing a CHALLENGE. We want ALL Dancers to have Right and Left
splits, and a solid back bend.
Dancers sign a calendar each
night when they stretch for 20 minutes a day. Teachers will be working on
stretching exercises along with our stretch specialist the next few months to
give you tips for at home stretching.
Each month when you have at
least 2 hours per week signed on your calendar (you can turn in any printed
calendar you choose), you can turn your calendar in at the end of the month and
put your name in the drawing. The name pulled out each month from the drawing
will win a $100 gift certificate to GROOVE!
This can be used for anything at the store.
We also
want you to take picture the first day you start stretching and then When the
Challenge is over in May, we want you to take new pictures of the same
splits/pose and we will pick a GRAND winner.
The GRAND winner
gets the New American Girl Doll, Isabelle, who happens to be a dancer!
Good Luck
