The importance of using your core when dancing
Image by Silvia Gaudenzi from Pixabay When I was a ballet dancer, I remember I was like 12 or 13 years old and I went to a vacation ballet school and the dance teacher I had never met and I was extremely thin but not anorexic. I am telling you this because it was here that I learnt what my core was. As a ballet dancer we tuck in our stomachs and our bottoms. It was an every dance move thing that we had to do. So I had full control over that. But my core was different. I was in the front row because I like to clearly see what I am learning and the male dance teacher said to me, pull in your stomach. So I pulled in my stomach where my belly button is. He said no, that’s not pulling in your stomach. I looked at him confused. He pointed to the part under my belly button. A pouch you would see on most women, even celebrities. I didn’t have a pouch because I was thin but however he could see it, he could see it was not pulled in. I felt the pull immediately when I tried it. And I have ...
