Dance helps you to develop endurance and determination. It improves your sense of rhythm and timing, coordination and balance. It is dance that creates a better- looking body; regal posture that becomes second nature, natural grace and poise, long, lean, elegant muscles, spatial awareness and strength.
I own a sense of discipline that touches every aspect of my life. I have often taken it for granted, but the training I engaged in on a daily basis, almost 6 hours each day for most of my life to date---what was required to achieve a high level of mastery and artistry---to become a professional dancer, provided me with the fuel, the drive and the ability to accomplish whatever I needed or wanted to in my life.
Dancers are Athletes
Professional dance demands an almost superhuman discipline, sacrifice and commitment to the highest standard of excellence. It demands perfection. Even the most basic exercises in the classical ballet syllabus inspire exactitude; no other mind-body modality in my old “Method” series or my new Hot Body Cool Mind flow requires such precision and control.
Dancers are the ultimate athletes. And while becoming a professional dancer does require superhuman effort and focus, the dance segments in my DVDs do not! In my new DVD series, both Hot Body Cool Mind and the new Jennifer Kries line, I have chosen a collection of the most basic and essential ballet and modern jazz warm-up exercises and choreographed routines that are challenging, yet accessible. The dance segments will provide you with a perfectly well-rounded introduction to dance and will help you to sculpt the body of your dreams! The elements I have included in the workout will bestow the same physical results as if you were a professional dancer yourself.
Dance, the instinctual, universally human expression, takes the body through music and movement to another, higher dimension; increasing muscular stamina, strengthening your heart and your entire body while spiritually taking you to heights you never imagined you would reach.
Paradoxically, as you invest your every ounce of effort it is potentialities, always pushing the envelope, tirelessly raising the bar one step higher, struggling to manifest your personal image of perfection in form and strategy, you are somehow, miraculously, able to lose yourself to the music … You forget your body, you forget the effort, you forget yourself. What could be better?!
Class Format
Traditional dance classes feature three segments: a warm-up, (in ballet it is performed at the ballet barre) a combination and a cool-down. The warm-up is both a study and a practice of the basic strength techniques and movement patterns that will later connect to become longer movement patterns. Beginners and seasoned dancers alike warm up with the same exercises. In fact, long after dancers leave the stage and are no longer dancing professionally, they often continue to keep their bodies in shape by attending the warm-up segments of a dance class.The dance segments in my new DVD series are pure and accurate examples of classical ballet and modern jazz classes. They feature simple movements that target specific muscle groups, conditioning and strengthening the body through contraction and release. An array of the most effective body-sculpting techniques, they create an integrated, mobile awareness of the muscles we use for abdominal support and proper body alignment. I will take you through smooth, continuous, choreographed segments that will free your body and leave you feeling energized, motivated and proud. The result will be increased physical strength and endurance, greater focus and stamina. You will cultivate a feeling of length and poise and an unrivaled sense of accomplishment. There is no other exercise modality that can boast both the sense of groundedness and the sense of weightlessness that one can experience in dance, or the feeling of total mind-body-spirit-lifting joy that dance creates …
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