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OPDI-116: Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: Applied Science of Dancer Health & Injury Prevention
September 23, 2024 - December 15, 2024
Dance educators in every genre of dance serve a myriad of student populations. The goal of this evidenced-based course is to present you, the dance educator, with key principles of overall health in a way that will allow you to critically interpret the information, apply it to your dance education setting, and formulate a dance injury prevention plan of action in your teaching practice. Participants will explore the relationship, or spectrum, between overall health and dance injuries in order to consider what a dance injury prevention plan of action would include in any given environment. Topics covered will include physical, psychodynamic, and environmental factors; motor skill development; strength and conditioning principles; common dance injuries and their formal nomenclature; common myths about injury and training; adolescent dancer health; basic functional anatomy/biomechanics and nutrition; and teacher self-care. Upon analyzing the course material, participants will design an action plan for their students and receive feedback from Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (HCDI) clinicians. At the end of this course, students will demonstrate knowledge of what factors constitute overall health and how they can use this knowledge to develop and deepen their own teaching practices, regardless of educational setting. It is strongly encouraged but not required that prior to engaging in this course, that participants have previously taken NDEO’s OPDI-110 Dance Kinesiology and Applied Teaching Practice or another anatomy/kinesiology course.
Agenda
Speakers
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Faye Dilgen
<p>Dr. Dilgen holds a doctorate in physical therapy from Long Island University and has completed coursework for a doctorate in pathokinesiology from NYU. She has been treating dancers at Harkness Center for Dance Injuries for more than 25 years and was a founding physical therapist for the program. She specializes in orthopedic manual therapy, rehabilitation, and functional training for performing artists and is certified in mat Pilates. Dr. Dilgen has treated dancers from numerous companies, Broadway shows, and schools.</p>
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Harkness Center for Dance Injuries |
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Joshua Honrado
<p>Joshua Honrado, an athletic trainer at Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU Langone Health, provides backstage care to Broadway shows and elite dance companies as well as injury prevention assessments and educational lectures to the dance community. He received his MS in athletic training from Seton Hall University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Athletic Training from A.T. Still University. Joshua is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a registered yoga teacher. Joshua Honrado teaches OPDI-116: Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: The Applied Science of Dancer Health and Injury Prevention.</p>
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NYU Langone Health's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries |
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Kristen Stevens
<p>Kristen Stevens is program coordinator of education programs and marketing at NYU Langone Health's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries and on faculty at American Ballet Theatre’s JKO School Children’s Division, where she currently teaches Level 1. Previously, she worked as a professional ballet dancer in companies including Norwegian National Ballet, BalletMet Columbus, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, and the Met Opera (1994-2015). She was a teaching artist with the New York City Ballet (2013-18) and worked as assistant to the director at the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008-16). She holds a bachelor's in liberal arts from The New School for General Studies (2009) and a master’s degree in arts administration from Teachers College, Columbia University (2012). Kristen is certified in the ABT NTC through Level 7; has completed the DEL Foundations of Dance Education course; and has been a mom since 2018. </p>
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NYU Langone Health's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries |
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