Course Description

Dancers spend hours working on dance floors. 

Installing a new floor is a big investment for a studio. Floors can influence dancer injury risk and performance quality. 

The structure of a sprung floor is ultimately what gives the 'spring' to a floor. 

This course provides an in depth look into how a floor is made, how it effects dancers' bodies, the standards that apply to dance floors and how dancers perceive different floor types. 

3 hrs time valued on demand CPD. Includes three months access.

Course aims

  • Overview the mechanical properties of sprung floors
  • Show how floors are assessed for manufacturing standards
  • Consider the impact of a floor on a dancer's body
  • Discuss how dancers perceive and assess floors

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course students should be able to;

  • Conduct a basic assessment of a dance floor based on its mechanical properties
  • Carefully consider how a floor can impact a dancer's body
  • Survey dancers on their perceptions of different floors

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Founder, Dance Knowledge

Dr Luke Hopper

Dr Luke Hopper is an Australian dance scientist with a research focus on the biomechanics of dancer performance and injury. Luke’s research has involved collaboration with major ballet companies in the Australia and the UK and has served on the board of directors of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science and is the president of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    The spring in sprung floors

  • 2

    Floor standards

  • 3

    Floors impact on a dancer

  • 4

    Dancers have the answers

    • Dancer perceptions of floor standards

    • Dancer perceptions of quantified dance surface mechanical properties

    • Dancer perceptions of floor performance

    • Dancer perceptions of the force reduction of dance floors used by a professional touring ballet company

    • Dancers have the answers when it comes to dance floors

    • Dance floors and injury

    • Dance floor discussion forum

    • Dancer injury rates on dance floors

Reviews

5 star rating

Great course

ALEJANDRA ZARAGOZA BARRA

Thanks for such a clear explanation!

Thanks for such a clear explanation!

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Edwin E. Vicente

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4 star rating

Described course

Barbara Devereau Bourgeois

Very technical, more than I had anticipated but interesting. Learned much about the way floors affect the way a dancer moves, balances and the perceptions o...

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Very technical, more than I had anticipated but interesting. Learned much about the way floors affect the way a dancer moves, balances and the perceptions of same.

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