Strategic Approach to Training the Dancer as an Athlete

A unique training program that equips you with the keys to optimize your physical and mental performance, today and throughout your career.

Exact schedule

Multi-session course

• Wednesday, November 6, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Wednesday, November 13, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Wednesday, November 20, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Wednesday, November 27, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

This four (4) workshop series, each lasting three (3) hours, invites you to develop a comprehensive view of your training needs, from the perspective of the dancer as an athlete or professional athlete. The goal is to provide you with the tools to structure the physical experience of your profession and to harness the stressors of your life, both personal and professional, for your performance.

Alternating between theoretical demonstrations and practical experiments that encourage discussion and value errors as sources of learning, the training will lead you to establish a training culture capable of meeting athletic requirements and taking into account planning, periodicity, recovery, and regeneration related to the stresses associated with your dance practice.

You will learn to identify and quantify your stressors (mechanical, emotional, mental). You will then be led to create a strategic and structured training plan, both in the long term (annual) by setting S.M.A.R.T.E.S.T. goals (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Time-bound, Elastic, anchored in Sensation, and Trustworthy – therefore reproducible), and in the short term through the outline of weekly plans and daily routines. This unique, meticulous, and progressive planning approach includes identifying obstacles to your training, an essential step to anticipate potential challenges and prepare in advance solutions to overcome them.

Objectives

• Acquire notions, methods and tools to plan, develop and adopt new training methods (annual, weekly and daily) aimed at optimizing your dance practice.
• Identify and quantify stressors, then develop strategies to better manage them and use them to improve performance.
• Develop new skills in athletic conditioning, mental preparation and recovery.

Who can benefit from this training?

For dancers and performing artists, as well as all other professional “movers.”

Trainer

Jérémie Fiset is a consultant in human biomechanics, a renowned movement coach, and a specialist in Paragym acrobatics, a unique fusion of parkour, gymnastics, and urban acrobatics. He is also a certified somatic educator in Kiné-Gym, emphasizing posturo-dynamic body awareness. With specialization in biomechanics of walking and running through the G.D.S. method, Jérémie excels in posturology, behavioral techniques, physiotherapy, prevention, and body management through movement.

As a co-founder of the Aeküus center, Jérémie directed a movement school in Montreal, where he developed the Art of Agility, a groundbreaking method that combines somatic education and physical education. His expertise extends to athlete-dancers, actors, stunt performers, MMA fighters, climbers, and other professionals demanding high-level physical performance.

Today, Jérémie Fiset dedicates himself to consulting and training, working alongside mentors in biomechanics of bipedal locomotion. He advocates for a dynamic movement culture and continues to coach a diverse clientele, emphasizing the importance of an active lifestyle through locomotion.