dancer nutrition Archives - Dance Informa Magazine

How eating more, not less, leads to a healthy dancer weight

Dancers can feel like their weight is a tricky balance between staying toned but also having tremendous energy and strength. Being too thin...

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Dancer Health

Coronavirus Nutrition Essentials to Boost your Immunity

Foods and supplements to boost your immunity and fight infection during the COVID 19 pandemic. At any time, but especially during this...

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Dancer Health

Your nutrition strategies to maximise the Victorian Dance Festival experience

Leading up to a big convention weekend, you want to make sure you have been taking the best care of yourself in...

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Dance Teacher Resources

What directors really wish their students knew about creating an atmosphere to thrive

As Beyoncé’s Dance Captain, Kimmie Gee knows what it takes to make it in the ultra competitive dance world. “I wish all...

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Dancer Health

Plant-based milk alternatives: What dancers need to know

The rise in popularity of non-dairy milk alternatives can be attributed to many diverse reasons, including increased awareness of their health benefits,...

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Dancer Health

Keto Diet: Unsafe for Dancers

The keto diet, short for ketogenic, is the latest variation of a low carbohydrate diet with a twist that it recommends eating...

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Dance Advice

To our non-dancer friends: 10 things to know about us

When it comes to the life of a dancer, there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Whether it’s our...

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Dancer Health

Thriving through winter with these easy health tips

With the right care and attention to our body and mind, winter can be a time to thrive, to get down to...

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Dancer Health

Vitamin D deficiency is common, and it’s a bigger concern than most dancers realise

My daughter is now taking five dance classes a week, so at a recent visit to her pediatrician, I asked about testing...

Victorian Dance Festival 2017. Photo by Belinda Strodder.

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Dancer Health

Nutrition for your Dance Festival Weekend

VDF, proudly sponsored by Dance Informa , is fast approaching! I’m sure you’ve picked out your outfits, but have you chosen your...

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Dancer Health

5 proven superfoods to boost your performance in the New Year

These five foods have the nutrition chops to actually earn the title “superfoods”. There’s substantial research to back up health claims, they’re...

Foods for dancers to avoid before a show

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Five foods to avoid or limit before a performance

It’s dance concert time! Many non-dancers might not realise how much energy it takes to get through performances requiring dancing in multiple...

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Dancer Health

Winter is over: 6 tips to get back in shape the healthy way

There is something about warm weather, swim suits and beach season that motivates us to stick to our healthy lifestyle goals like...

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Dancer Health

Vegan diets: A skyrocketing trend, but are they safe for dancers and athletes?

What do Sylvie Guillem, Natalie Portman, Serena Williams, Alec Baldwin and Joaquin Phoenix have in common? They are all very public about...

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Dancer Health

Five nutrition must-knows for dance students

Dancers have heard the importance of good nutrition. Your body is your instrument, and it needs fuel – the premium kind – to...

Victoria Casillo. Photo courtesy of Casillo.

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Dance Advice

How Dancers Fight Adversity and Setbacks

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? Well, if that’s true, then dancers are the strongest humans on Earth. We face...

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Dancer Health

Why is everyone drinking Kombucha tea these days?

Probiotic drinks like kombucha tea are one of the hottest trends in health and nutrition. Once thought of as something your hippie...

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Dance Teacher Resources

Creating a Healthy Atmosphere at the Studio

Teachers and directors care about their dancers’ health, but they also understand that dance is an aesthetic art form. Sometimes having discussions...