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    The Key to Crossover - How to Enhance Your Irish Dance Crossover
    Target Training
    • Oct 19, 2016
    • 1 min

    The Key to Crossover - How to Enhance Your Irish Dance Crossover

    One of the key components to an elite Irish dancer's performance is crossover. As a dancer, you’ve probably heard your dance teachers encourage you to “cross!” or have seen on your adjudicator comment sheet from a feis, “knees open”, “crossover”, or “tighten knees”. And you work tirelessly at home in front of the mirror to get one knee in front of the other. But you could be missing a key component to enhancing your crossover - strengthening your adductors! Your adductors
    Strength Training for Irish Dancers - Why it's Essential
    Target Training
    • Jun 21, 2016
    • 1 min

    Strength Training for Irish Dancers - Why it's Essential

    Strength and conditioning programs have primarily been associated with sports for hundreds of years. But when it comes to dance, it is not commonly seen as a necessary component. However, recent research shows that “training outside the dance technique class is not only beneficial, but perhaps essential to furthering strength and power in highly-developed dancers.”1 Strength training programs teach dancers efficient ways to improve technique by increasing the quality of ef
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