Creating Entry Points to Athletic Qualities

Your students are athletes. That's not a controversial statement, but the way most ballet training is structured, you'd never know it. The warm-up is the same every class. The conditioning work, if it exists at all, happens at the margins. And the athletic qualities that actually protect dancers and extend their careers (mobility, strength, coordination, tissue resilience) get treated as someone else's job.

They don't have to be.

This session with Rob Tsai (physical therapist and founder of Dance Prehab) is about creating practical entry points to athletic development inside the reality of your studio. Not a gym. Not a strength coach on staff. Just you, your class, and a more intentional approach to how you prepare dancers to move.

Rob will walk through the RAMP warm-up framework — a structured, evidence-based approach to warming up that does more than raise body temperature. It primes the nervous system, builds movement…