Base Offerings

We believe that information is the Key to Progress. The focus of the Dancer Wellness Program is to offer a platform designed to provide our dancers with key information for success. The program has multiple components designed to promote mind-body health, address injury prevention, offer education for self-care and mastery, and improve performance and artistic acquisition.  Through our facilitated programs, the dancers pattern self-awareness and self-advocacy.

Dance Conditioning

Each season our Wellness Associates design and progress students in Levels 5-8 through a dance-specific conditioning program designed to prevent injury and to enhance technique training. Dance conditioning is fully integrated into the curriculum, which incorporates daily exercises and weekly conditioning classes.

Be En Pointe

One of the biggest milestones for a young dancer is the day she first takes class in pointe shoes. It’s a marker of achieving a level of proficiency that reflects her dedication to the art.

Los Gatos Ballet’s Wellness Associates have implemented a program to enhance the physical, emotional and mental strength required of the milestone, and to support the faculty through objective assessment for pointe readiness.

Using an integrative disciplinary approach that includes Neuroscience performance techniques, Pilates based conditioning, stability and mobility techniques, Be En Pointe is designed to prepare the dancer for pointe work. This program culminates with an objective assessment supported by the faculty to determine pointe readiness. It’s a wonderful way to empower the dancers through the process.

Registration

• Eligibility:  Dancers in Level 5
• Registration through PunchPass
• For questions, email be.en.pointe@gmail.com

Coaching

Operating with a holistic approach to training, we are excited to welcome a new addition to our team to support integrated success for transformational living. Gina Pero is a Life Choreographer, guiding and directing people through the art of performing, speaking and coaching for almost two decades. A Master Certified Coach, a BFA in Dance, and a Simonson Dance Teacher certification, Gina has over 18 years of onstage experience, performing and speaking around the globe, teaching dance world wide, and life coaching exceptional talent. Check our Bulletin Board for upcoming workshops for dancers and parents.

Dancer Wellness Support Team – Affiliates

Joanna Ramos, Dancer Wellness Program Liaison

Yuka Sugiura, CMT, Dancer Wellness Program Liaison, Orthopedic Massage/Pilates Therapist

Kevin Vandi, DPT, OCS, CSCS, Competitive Edge

Gina Pero, Life & Performance Coach

Darla Booth, DC

Ariel Lehaitre, MST, PMA, CPT

Brandt Pedersen, DC, CCSP, Positive Motion Health

Juliet Tablak, DC, CPT

Kevin G. Shea, MD, Stanford Sports Medicine

Emily Kraus, MD, Stanford Sports Medicine